Dehradun, Read: An elderly couple and their domestic help were brutally murdered after entering their house in Vishnu Lok Colony of Raipur police station area of the capital on Tuesday afternoon. The accused is a plumber known to the couple who had entered the house with the intention of robbery. He first snatched the chain from the neck of the elderly woman and when she protested, he attacked her several times with a screwdriver. The attacker also attacked the domestic help who came to save the woman and later her elderly husband. All three were taken to the hospital in critical condition, where doctors declared them dead.
A familiar plumber was called to fix the tap.
SSP Dehradun Pramendra Singh Dobal, while disclosing this triple murder, said that Ramesh Kapoor (80), son of Late Ramesh Kapoor (80), retired from Ordnance Factory. Dwarika Das lived with his wife Rajni Kapoor (75) in Vishnu Lok Colony of Raipur area. The tap in his house was not working for some days. For this, he had called the known plumber Rajkumar, son of Virendra Singh, resident of Indresh Nagar, Kotwali Nagar, Dehradun, native of village Banda, police station Kiratpur, district Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh), to fix the tap at around 2 pm on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the SSP, the arrested murderer Rajkumar told during interrogation that, after completing the work, he had an argument with the elderly couple regarding money transaction, after which he left from there, but after some time, he returned with the intention of taking revenge and looting from the couple and pulled the gold chain from the neck of the elderly Rajni. When Rajni protested against this, he attacked Rajni with a screwdriver.
Husband who came to save wife also attacked
When elderly Ramesh ran to save his wife, the accused also attacked Ramesh with a screwdriver. Hearing the screams of the elderly couple, when the maid Tilaya Devi alias Sheela (48), resident of Raipur, reached there from the neighboring house, Rajkumar also killed the maid by stabbing her with a screwdriver. Meanwhile, nearby people also reached the spot and caught the murderer there. Raipur police reached the police station on information and took the murderer into custody. Along with the gold chain looted from the murderer, the screwdriver used in the murder was also recovered.
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