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60 year old killed for jewels

A 60-year-old woman was found dead inside her residence in the Mansarovar Park area of northeast Delhi on Friday morning, police said.

Shanti Devi was found dead around 9.30 am on Friday with severe head injury inside her Ashok Nagar residence in east Delhi’s Mansarovar Park.

Police suspect that the elderly woman was murdered for robbery as jewellery she was wearing were missing.

According to the police, the victim lived alone at her single room house in Ashok Nagar after the death of her husband Mahavir Jain while her sons lived in the adjacent house.

'Her eldest son Satpal made a call to police to inform about the incident. The victim was hit on her head with a blunt object and apparently it appeared that she was murdered with an intention of robbery,' said a police official.

A case of murder has been registered and investigations are underway, said the official.
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