Two sisters shot dead in high-security RK Puram; three arrested

Two women were allegedly killed by a group of assailants early on June 18 morning in the RK Puram area of the national capital, a heavy security area where the Narcotics Control Bureau, RK Puram Air Headquarters and staff camp of the Central Reserve Police Force are all located.

Two women were allegedly killed by a group of assailants early on June 18 morning in the RK Puram area of the national capital, a heavy security area where the Narcotics Control Bureau, RK Puram Air Headquarters and staff camp of the Central Reserve Police Force are all located.

The women were sisters trying to save their brother from attackers, police said, adding that three accused have been arrested. The RK Puram police station recieved a Police Control Room call at 4:40 a.m. on Sunday, with the caller saying that two of his sisters had been shot at Ambedkar Basti, which is located just a short walk across the road from the NCB and Air HQ premises.

Police arrived at the spot and found that neighbours and family members had shifted the women to Safdarjung Hospital. The women — Pinky, 30 and Jyoti, 29 — were alive when they reached the hospital, but then succumbed to their injuries there, an officer said. Pinky, who lived in Munirka had two children, while Jyoti had three children and lived in Ambedkar Basti. They died while saving their brother Lalit, a taxi driver.

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The police have filed an FIR under sections pertaining to murder and have arrested three accused persons — Arjun, Micheal, and Dev — who reside in KD Colony, just a couple of kilometres away from the scene of the crime.

According to a senior police officer, the accused knew Mr. Lalit as they lived near by, and had borrowed ₹10,000 from him a while ago, which he had been asking them to return. “He had approached them a few times since the last 15 days. Yesterday, he spoke to them and requested for the money again. The accused persons then attacked him,” an officer said.

According to the family, the sisters were at their father’s two-room house on a tiny lane in Ambedkar Basti, to celebrate the June 14 wedding anniversary of their other brother, Lala. The basti neighbourhood is surrounded by central government enforcement agencies and armed forces establishments, which have round-the-clock security.