A 42-year-old woman and her 14-year-old son were murdered at their residence in Block F of Delhi's Lajpat Nagar-I on Wednesday evening. Police have arrested Mukesh Paswan, who was a helper at their garment shop, in connection with the murders.
Mukesh Paswan, a 24-year-old, was arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhay Junction on board a train on Thursday, while he was trying to flee to Bihar. He confessed to the crime and said that he slit the throats of both Ruchika Sewani and her son Krish as Ruchika had earlier ‘yelled and humiliated’ him.
“There was blood all over the house. The woman was lying dead, with her throat slit, in a room on the floor next to the bed. When we opened the washroom, the son was lying dead inside, with his throat slit as well,” a police officer at the scene of the crime revealed on the condition of anonymity, as reported by HT.
According to the police, Mukesh entered the Sewani residence at around 7:30 PM on Wednesday. At that time, the woman’s husband, Kuldeep Sewani, was not at home while Ruchika and her son Krish were. A nearby CCTV camera captured Paswan’s entry.
Mukesh Paswan allegedly killed Ruchika, slitting her throat in the bedroom, and Krish witnessed the attack. Later on, Krish, who was hiding in the washroom after watching his mother’s murder, was also killed similarly.
When Kuldeep Sewani returned home around 9:30 PM, he saw blood on the staircase. When his wife didn't answer the door, he called the police and uncovered the murders at around 10 PM. According to the police, Kuldeep told them that he had last spoken to his wife around 7:15 PM, when she was fine.
Paswan told the investigators that he was humiliated as Ruchika scolded him on Wednesday morning for not reporting to work for over a week. “It was revealed that he had taken ₹40,000 in advance and was also given a mobile phone by the family. Ruchika told him to either come to work or return the money,” the officer said.
