Domestic help held guilty of raping, killing elderly woman

A court here today convicted a domestic help of raping and killing an 81-year-old woman at her south Delhi residence.

Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain held Neeraj Saki guilty of offences of rape and murder under IPC in the incident which occurred on July 8, 2014 at the victim's house in Greater Kailash-II.

The court is likely to soon pronounce the order on the quantum of sentence.

The police, in its charge sheet, had said that Saki had raped the woman before strangling her and then set her body on fire.

It had said that after killing the victim, he tried to mislead neighbours about her whereabouts and fled from the house with cash and jewellery.

The convict, who hails from Madhubani in Bihar, had set the body of victim Rekha Duggal on fire using kerosene and dragged it to an adjacent room, it had said.

He then informed neighbours that Rekha had not returned from her evening walk, the charge sheet had said.

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