A 17-year-old boy was taken into custody for killing an elderly couple in Delhi¡¯s Amar Colony. The boy entered the house wearing a salwar kameez and left in a ¡®corporate attire¡¯ the next day after committing the crime, police said. ?
The elderly couple - Virender Kumar Khaneja and his wife Sarla Khaneja - was found dead inside their house on January 27.?The full-fledged murder plan was made by their part-time servant, who used to give massages to Sarla. She was arrested along with her minor son the next day on the charge of killing the couple.
During the investigation, the maid revealed that she opened the door of the couple¡¯s residence to let her son enter the flat. At that moment only Sarla was in the house. The boy then strangulated the woman and robbed all the jewellery from their house and then waited for Virender to return and killed him also.
Next day in the morning, the boy left the house in a corporate attire with a cap on, while talking on the phone to not raise any suspicion against him. He was carrying a handbag and a trolley which contained the iron safe holding the stolen cash, a police official said.
The maid was sent to judicial custody for 14-days, while her son was taken into police remand for a day on January 29.?Rs 9 lakh cash, gold jewellery and other articles have already been recovered, the police said.