Ranchi. In Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi, fearless criminals barged into a house on Friday afternoon, first asked 70-year-old elderly woman Malambika Sinha for drinking water and then brutally murdered her by stabbing her on her throat. Police sources said that unidentified criminals entered into a house located on road number four of Ashok Nagar, a posh colony of the city and carried out the incident.
Police said that the husband of the elderly woman was out of the house at the time of the incident and was accompanied by only the house maid, but surprisingly the maid did not get to know about the incident. Vijay Kumar Sinha, the husband of the slain elderly woman, has been a DGM in the State Bank of India. The couple lived in 398B of Ashok Nagar Road No 4 of Ranchi.
As soon as Vijay Sinha reached home at around 2 pm on Friday, he cried seeing his wife lying on the ground lying in a pool of blood in a room of the house. He took the wife to the hospital, where the doctors declared her brought dead. He said that as soon as the information about the matter was received, Argora police station in-charge Vinod Kumar, Deputy Superintendent of Cyber Police Yashodhara and the team of Criminology Laboratory (FSL) also reached the spot. During the investigation of CCTV footage, the picture of both the killers was found by the police, on the basis of which efforts are being made to arrest them.
Police said that it is clearly visible in the CCTV camera that at around 12 noon, two youths came inside the house by opening the main gate of the house and after staying in the house for about 50 minutes, they left the house. The maid of the Sinha couple, Basanti, 60, was present at the house when the crime was perpetrated by the criminals. But he was reportedly not aware of the incident. While the killers were present in the house for about 45 minutes. Not only this, he sat at Sinha’s house and ate sweets and drank water too, but the maid did not even know about it.
Ranchi Police team is interrogating the maid of the Sinha couple. Together, she is also trying to find out who else is in her house. Sinha couple’s son is working in US and daughter is working in London and Vijay Kumar Sinha and Malambika Sinha were residing at Ashok Nagar Road No. 4 residence for the last several years. Dr. Usha Nath, the eminent female doctor of Ranchi, is the sister of Vijay Sinha.
On getting information about the matter, many former IAS officers living in Ashok Nagar including Dr. Usha Nath also reached the spot. Police said that seeing the room in which the elderly woman was murdered, it is clear that they fought hard with the killers. But during the struggle, one of the two killers hit him deeply on his neck with a knife, due to which his neck was cut, while one of his hands was also cut off by the killers. According to Argora police station in-charge Vinod, the locks of two shelves of the room are broken, a briefcase has also been opened. He told that the purpose for which the criminals had come there is also being investigated.