Gwalior Double Murder: To avenge the insult, the old servant along with his friends murdered the mother and daughter.
The accused servant and his associates are in the custody of Gwalior Police.
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The dead bodies of mother and daughter were found in their house in a posh colony on Tuesday. The police were investigating both suicide and murder angles. The post-mortem revealed murder by strangulation.
Naiduniya Pratiniya, Gwalior (Gwalior Double Murder). The police had arrested an old servant in the case of murder of an elderly woman and her daughter in the posh society Garden Homes of Gwalior. He had committed this crime along with his three associates. During interrogation, it has come to light that he murdered both of them to avenge the insult of being fired from the job.
On Wednesday, the police revealed the murder of an elderly mother and daughter in Gwalior. Only old servant Irfan Khan was involved in the murder. Six months ago, Reena Bhalla, the daughter of an elderly woman, was fired from her grocery store job. During this time there was a dispute between them regarding money.
Had called two friends from Hyderabad
Irfan had hatched a conspiracy a month and a half ago to take revenge for losing his job and being insulted. He also called two friends from Hyderabad to Gwalior for this. He reached the house of an elderly woman with three friends. During this time Reena Bhalla also came there. If she didn’t tell anyone, the daughter was killed along with the mother. The police have arrested all four accused.
Three suspects were seen in CCTV, police made the link from there.
The bodies of mother and daughter were found in the bedroom of flat number 322 at 11 am on Tuesday. As soon as information about the incident was received, the police reached the spot and started investigation. Initially it seemed to be a case of suicide, but after police investigation, it was revealed by forensic experts that the murder was done by strangulation or by suffocating the face with a pillow.
Three suspects were seen in the CCTV, due to which the police linked the incident and arrested the accused servant and his associates. The woman Indu Puri was 78 years old and her daughter Reena Bhalla was 55 years old. Gwalior Range IG Arvind Saxena, SP Dharamveer Singh and forensic expert Akhilesh Bhargava along with their team reached the society and investigated the case.
There was a grocery shop in Reena’s society.
Reena Bhalla has a grocery shop in her own society. Irfan used to work here. Four months ago, Reena had fired Irfan from his job over a dispute over money. When the police investigated all aspects and searched the CCTV footage, a person resembling Irfan was seen in it. After this, the police proceeded with the investigation in this direction and arrested all the accused.
