Shocker: 62-year-old woman stabbed to death after being sexually assaulted

In a shocking incident, a 62-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed 20 times by a man after being sexually assaulted in Delhi on Monday.

The victim died after the heinous crime. The accused has now been arrested.

The 62-year-old woman was from Begusarai in Bihar and used to live in a village in Delhi along with her son and grandson.

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She used to sell vegetables near her house. On Sunday, she took her vegetable cart along with her grandson and went back home to cook food, police said.

According to news agency PTI, the police received information about the incident on Sunday from a hospital.

On arrival, police found that the throat of the victim had been slit with a sharp-edged weapon and there were multiple injuries on her stomach. The 62-year-old woman declared brought dead, police officer Priyanka Kashyap said.

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During the investigation, police scanned the CCTV footage of the area from where the woman was recovered and the accused’s identity was also established, following which he was arrested.

During interrogation, the accused admitted to his crime. A knife was also recovered from him, a police official said. The accused was in an inebriated condition during the crime.

According to PTI, the accused first slit the throat of the woman and then stabbed her 20 times, they said. Police also told that it appears to be a case of sexual assault.

The deceased body was sent for the post-mortem. The victim’s son told that when he came home after completing his working hours as a security guard in Noida, he saw his mother lying in a pool of blood.

Police registered a case under section 302 (murder).

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