Juvenile held for killing sister-in-law, her minor son

Delhi Police arrested a juvenile on Saturday for killing his sister-in-law and her minor son. The accused is said to be a native of Muzaffarpur district in Bihar. During interrogation, the accused has accepted his crime.

New Delhi: A juvenile was apprehended on Saturday for allegedly killing his sister-in-law and her minor son after she resisted his attempts to sexually assault her in central Delhi's Prem Nagar area.

The juvenile, a native of Muzaffarpur district in Bihar, used to sell vegetables in the area. He was staying with the deceased's family for the past 20 days, police said.

On Thursday, the bodies of the 26-year-old woman and her four-year-old son were found at their rented accommodation. The woman's throat was slit with a sharp object and she was lying in a pool of blood. Her son was found hanging from a ceiling fan, they said.

During the investigation, it was found that the juvenile was the last person who visited their room. While police scanned the mobile phone of the deceased, they found a selfie which was taken by the juvenile on Thursday afternoon just before the incident.

"Police arrested the accused after they found some minor injuries on his body, including teeth bites on the legs, scratches on the face, neck and the back," Mandeep Singh Randhawa, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central), said.

During interrogation, the juvenile revealed that on the day of the incident, he tried to assault the woman which she resisted strongly, he said.

In the resistance, he received minor injuries on his face, neck and other parts of the body, following which he hit the woman with a stone, leaving her unconscious. In the meantime, the child woke up and told the accused that he will tell his father about the incident, the DCP said.

He strangulated him and while he was trying to hang him from a ceiling fan, the woman regained consciousness. She bit the accused on the leg to save her son, Randhawa said.

The accused hanged the child after slitting the throat of the woman with a knife. Thereafter, he washed the blood stains in the washroom and left the house, the DCP said.

After the incident, he roamed in Baljeet Nagar and Prem Nagar areas for two to three hours. A pendant of the accused, a stone, a knife and a soap used for washing blood stains were recovered the officer added.