Mumbai: Four people, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly killing a 79-year-old woman while committing robbery at her home here, police said Friday.
A group of robbers had sneaked into Vasanta Lakshminarayan's home at Matunga in central Mumbai on Tuesday night and committed the crime, police had said.
They strangled her to death before decamping with ornaments worth Rs 7.5 lakh, the police said.
The four suspects - Akbar Badshah Sheikh (35), Sameera Akbar Sheikh (34), Mohammad Hasan Patari (25) and Mohammad Ainul Haque (29) - residents of Dharavi and Mahim areas were nabbed by the Shahu Nagar police, an official said.
The incident came to light when Lakshminarayan's neighbours spotted her lying motionless at her residence, the official said.
During the investigation, the police zeroed in on the gang and caught its members from central Mumbai, he said, adding further probe was underway.
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