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An 86-year-old retired Army Colonel was strangulated to death by an unidentified man on Monday evening while he was talking to his daughter on phone in East Patel Nagar area of Central Delhi. The murder was followed by a robbery of around `3 lakh along with some gold jewellery. A case was registered at the Ranjit Nagar police station. Although the family found no suspect, but police suspects the role of their driver who had been employed in the house for three years and was on leave, following a hand burn injury.
The octogenarian, Omprakash Sharma, a retired ACSO of the Ministry of Defence, had taken a voluntary retirement from his job and was living with his son and his family in the posh area of East Patel Nagar. On the fateful Monday evening, he was alone in the house. At about 7.15 pm, he got a call from his daughter, Poonam, who lives in Rajender Nagar and then he kept chatting with her. The entire family was out on its daily chores at the time. “His son and wife were in office, children had gone to their tuition classes and the servant was also out,” told a police official.
After sometime, the door bell of the house rang. Hearing the bell, Omprakash asked Poonam to hold the line and went to open the door. When he just answered the person outside the door keeping the door slightly ajar, somebody attacked him abruptly with full force. “His phone was also disconnected. It was then that Poonam repeatedly dialed his number and got no answer from another end. She then informed us. We hurriedly reached our house and found the door locked. We rang the house bell repeatedly but got no answer. We tried breaking the door open but could not,” told Kamal Jaitely, son of the deceased. “We then called two carpenters who broke the lock and opened the door for us. And, on entering the house, we found my father was lying in pool of blood on his bed,” he told. Omprakash was not only brutally strangled but only pierced around the neck thrice with a pointed weapon. He was taken to Ganga Ram Hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
“After killing my father-in-law, the killer had banged the door back and fled. The door lock is such that when it closes, it also gets locked. It was only with the help of the carpenters that we entered the house,” said Rajiv Mehta, son-in-law of the deceased.
“The crime was committed by someone who knew everything about the house,” revealed Kamal Jaitely.
On checking the house it was found that out of the 15 almirahs, three were ransacked. “There are about 15 almirahs in the house, out of which, only three remained locked. The murder must have zeroed in on the locked almira thinking of them to contain the most valuable things. He broke their locks and stole around `3 lakh along with some gold jewellery. Moreover, he did not even touch the other almirah,” told a family member.
The family registered a case at the Ranjit Nagar police station and investigation was taken up. The police anticipated the hand of the 18-year-old driver who was currently out of town. Yet the family refused to call him the suspect.
The octogenarian, Omprakash Sharma, a retired ACSO of the Ministry of Defence, had taken a voluntary retirement from his job and was living with his son and his family in the posh area of East Patel Nagar. On the fateful Monday evening, he was alone in the house. At about 7.15 pm, he got a call from his daughter, Poonam, who lives in Rajender Nagar and then he kept chatting with her. The entire family was out on its daily chores at the time. “His son and wife were in office, children had gone to their tuition classes and the servant was also out,” told a police official.
After sometime, the door bell of the house rang. Hearing the bell, Omprakash asked Poonam to hold the line and went to open the door. When he just answered the person outside the door keeping the door slightly ajar, somebody attacked him abruptly with full force. “His phone was also disconnected. It was then that Poonam repeatedly dialed his number and got no answer from another end. She then informed us. We hurriedly reached our house and found the door locked. We rang the house bell repeatedly but got no answer. We tried breaking the door open but could not,” told Kamal Jaitely, son of the deceased. “We then called two carpenters who broke the lock and opened the door for us. And, on entering the house, we found my father was lying in pool of blood on his bed,” he told. Omprakash was not only brutally strangled but only pierced around the neck thrice with a pointed weapon. He was taken to Ganga Ram Hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
“After killing my father-in-law, the killer had banged the door back and fled. The door lock is such that when it closes, it also gets locked. It was only with the help of the carpenters that we entered the house,” said Rajiv Mehta, son-in-law of the deceased.
“The crime was committed by someone who knew everything about the house,” revealed Kamal Jaitely.
On checking the house it was found that out of the 15 almirahs, three were ransacked. “There are about 15 almirahs in the house, out of which, only three remained locked. The murder must have zeroed in on the locked almira thinking of them to contain the most valuable things. He broke their locks and stole around `3 lakh along with some gold jewellery. Moreover, he did not even touch the other almirah,” told a family member.
The family registered a case at the Ranjit Nagar police station and investigation was taken up. The police anticipated the hand of the 18-year-old driver who was currently out of town. Yet the family refused to call him the suspect.
