Kanpur Police solve 7-month-old murder case, arrests victim’s advocate’s driver, 2 friends
India Today
The murder of Madhu Kapoor, on February 13, was solved by the Swaroop Nagar Police in Kanpur. She was murdered by her lawyer’s driver and two of his friends, who then looted cash and jewellery worth lakhs.
Swaroop Nagar Police has solved the Madhu Kapoor murder case in Kanpur. The driver of the victim’s lawyer, who was going to her house, along with his two friends had carried out the murder with the intention of robbing her. Swaroop Nagar Police arrested all three accused involved in the crime.
Joint Police Commissioner, Anand Prakash Tiwari, said that on February 13 night, Madhu Kapoor, an old woman living alone in her flat at Concorde Apartment in Kanpur’s Swaroop Nagar, was murdered by miscreants. The victim’s maid, Savitri, was present in the house at the time of the incident.
The culprits had tied her hands and feet and locked her in the bathroom. They killed Madhu Kapoor and robbed lakhs of rupees. Based on CCTV footage, the police and the crime branch probing the case discovered that Madhu Kapoor's advocate, Sudhir Mehrotra, had visited her house.
Seeing the property worth crores and the lonely elderly woman, Vipin, Gautam Balmiki and another person planned the murder.
The driver was the mastermind of the incident, but he did not go inside the apartment for fear that his identity would be revealed. He gave instructions from outside and both his friends carried out the murder. After that, they fled after looting jewellery and cash worth lakhs of rupees.
When all the accused were picked up and questioned, they confessed to having committed the crime.
