Police arrested a couple from West Bengal and apprehended their 13-year-old son in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old DU assistant professor over a dispute regarding an ancestral property she owned in the eastern state.
The suspect family travelled 1,400km by train to Delhi to execute the murder on June 3. Officials said the three suspects were held on Sunday morning in Bardhaman, and the couple will be produced before a city court on Monday.
The victim had rented the Bardhaman house to the couple in 2023 for ₹10,000 per month. However, the couple offered to buy the house, but the professor refused and asked them to vacate the property.
According to investigators, the couple had planned the murder a week before the crime. They boarded a train from Bardhaman on June 2 and arrived in Delhi the following day, carrying a pestle and a razor.
The couple brought their minor son to mislead police and avoid suspicion. They also carried forged Aadhaar cards, which they used to check into a guest house in Dallupura near Vasundhara Enclave.
Police are trying to recover the pestle and have seized the victim's phone, the razor used in the crime, a backpack, clothes and cap used by the suspects along with the train tickets.
