A couple from Kolkata in West Bengal was arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old assistant professor of a Delhi University college.
The motive behind the murder was a property dispute, with the couple, who travelled to Delhi, murdering the professor and returning to Kolkata, being distant relatives of the deceased.
The woman, a permanent assistant professor at her current college in Raja Garden, was found with severe head injury, both her wrists slit and bruises on her face and body, suggesting a scuffle had taken place.
The couple wanted to buy the house they had been living in for many years, but the professor was against the family's decision to sell the ancestral property.
Enraged by the professor's refusal, they travelled to Delhi, killed her on Wednesday, and returned to Kolkata.
The couple was arrested in Kolkata and is being brought to Delhi for further interrogation and investigation.
