An army deserter and two contract killers were arrested by a crime branch team from Roorkee in Uttarakhand on Monday for murdering a 37-year-old woman inside her house in Gurugram’s Sohna and ransacking it to make the incident look like a burglary gone wrong, police said on Tuesday.
Police said Sandeep was a deserter from the army while the two killers have criminal antecedents. A senior police officer said that the army deserter was Sandeep alias Fauji who was Prashant’s elder cousin living in Daulah.
A family member had reached her home to meet her when she found the main entrance open and the entire house ransacked. She raised an alarm when neighbours reached the spot and removed the tapes from Neetu’s face and alerted her husband Prashant Kumar, a private school teacher. The victim was Neetu, Sandeep’s sister-in-law, who was found dead inside the bathroom of her house with her limbs tied and several layers of masking tape pasted on her face covering the mouth and nose which made her suffocate to death at Daulah in Sohna on October 16. “He wanted to sell a 1300 square yard land parcel in Sohna which was a family property.
He had even taken an advance amount from a potential buyer six months back with intent to sell it,” he said. They said Sandeep picked them up on his motorcycle and dropped them near Neetu’s home as he knew that she would be alone during this time since her husband and three children leave for school every morning.
He immediately returned with three children by 3pm and rushed her to a private hospital where doctors declared her dead following which a murder case against unidentified suspects was registered at Sadar Sohna police station.
