Hours after the 22-year-old daughter of a senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer was found murdered on Wednesday (April 22), the Delhi Police have apprehended the accused,Rahul Meena. He has been taken into custody in therape and murder case of the girl. The accused was hiding in a hotel in Delhi's Dwarka, and police tracked the location and took him into custody, according to an ANI report.
A 22-year-old IIT graduate and daughter of a senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer was allegedly raped and murdered at her residence by their former househelp in southeast Delhi's upscale Kailash Hills locality on Wednesday morning.
A senior police officer said that the victim's parents would lock the house in the morning and leave the keys outside for their domestic help. The IRS officer's daughter was alone in her house at the time of the incident and was found murdered in a room by her family members when they returned from the gym.
Rahul Meena, the 19-year-old domestic help who had worked with the family for around eight months, was sacked around a month ago. Meena was aware of the location of the keys and allegedly used them to enter the house on Wednesday. The accused was familiar with the household, including its layout and the daily routine of the family members. He knew when the victim's parents would step out for their walk or gym sessions.
The accused entered the house around 6 am, attacked the woman and sexually assaulted her. She was allegedly hit with a stick, inflicting significant blunt force trauma on her face and head.
Preliminary inquiry suggests the woman was sexually assaulted before being strangled to death using a mobile phone charger cable, the police said, adding they are waiting for the postmortem report for confirmation of sexual assault. Subsequently, the attacker strangled her using a mobile charging cable before fleeing the spot.
A police source said that after the incident, the family members immediately checked CCTV footage and saw Meena entering their building and going to the third floor of the house belonging to the victim. They have now handed over the entire CCTV footage to the police.
CCTV cameras were installed at the entrance of the victim's room, with the live feed accessible on both the victim's and her father's mobile phones, said the officer. The police said the suspect was also seen on a nearby street camera carrying a backpack.
The police said they have detained two persons, including a car cleaner in the area, and a househelp in the neighbourhood, for questioning, while they have apprehended Rahul Meena, the accused in the case.
The police said that Meena is also wanted in a sexual assault case in Rajasthan's Alwar, adding that he committed the offence on April 21 with a woman in Rajgarh and fled from Alwar, around 170 km from here, to Delhi. "An FIR has been registered at the Rajgarh Police Station against him. We are in contact with the Delhi Police, and a team of the Delhi Police has also visited here to question his family members," an officer in Alwar told PTI.
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