Documenting a crime in a diary by the accused is not usual, but while probing the infamous Samachar Apartment murder of 2016, the Delhi Police stumbled upon a register with a detailed description of the killing.
In its charge sheet, the police have said that hours after the murder, the accused Charu Verma had written in a register that she did not want to kill the 64-year-old Vijay Kumar, a retired government official and that her hands were trembling after the incident.
A spiral register that the police found at Verma's residence during search had written her confessions in the diary...'mera irada iss buddhe ko maarne ka nahi tha' along with other details of the murder.
Verma told the police that on July 20, 2016, she had gone to take her rape video clip from the deceased. However, instead of giving her the clip, Kumar tried to sexually assault her. Irked by this attempt, she took the knife from the table and stabbed him several times.
Verma also confessed that she took the LED TV along with her because according to the deceased, the video clip was saved in the TV, the police said in the chargesheet. They said that the TV and the blood-stained clothes of the accused were recovered from a drain in the Dabri area.
According to the police, she had thrown the case related material in the drain at Dabri where she had reached after boarding an auto from Samachar Apartment. The police also investigated the visitor's register at Samachar Apartment where they found that the details filled were false.
Police had narrowed down to the accused by examining the CCTV footage of the cameras installed at the residential society. The call detail records of the accused were also examined before nabbing her on July 23, 2016.
Meanwhile, a plea has been filed by advocate Rishi Pal Singh, counsel for the accused, for revision of the section under which she has been charged.
"We have filed a revision petition for changing the section. We want the section of 302 (murder) to be changed to 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) as the incident had taken in the spur of the moment," the advocate said.
Kumar was found murdered in his flat at Samachar Apartment on July 20, 2016, with several wounds on his body. An LED TV was also found missing from his house.
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