Bengaluru:

 A minor boy, student of Class 10, has been arrested in Karnataka for allegedly killing his aunt after she declined his indecent proposal, the police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place at a village near Uppinangady town in Dakshina Kannada district.

According to police, a 37-year-old woman was found dead on Sunday night at her residence under suspicious circumstances.

The accused minor boy who was at her home on Sunday, allegedly made sexual advances when the woman was sleeping. However, the woman — his maternal aunt — resisted and scolded him, and also asked him to behave properly.

Confessing his crime, the accused told the police that, fearing that she would tell others about his act, the Class 10 student smothered her to death using a pillow after sometime when she went back to sleep.

After killing her, he informed his father that the woman had suffered a heart attack and died.

The police, however, had suspicions about the boy since the woman’s body was spotted.

His father also informed the police about scratches on the accused’s back.

When the police questioned him, he confessed to having used a pillow to smother his aunt to death, saying he must have received the scratches while the woman was trying to push him away to escape.

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Mumbai:

A 63-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death in Maharashtra’s Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.

According to officials, the victim, identified as Jyoti Shah, was found dead inside her aparin the Nepean Sea Road area of South Mumbai.

Police said that they were examining the CCTV footage of the building, adding that they suspect the involvement of the victim’s newly recruited house-help in the crime.

The Malabar Hill police have registered an FIR in the matter under section 302 of the IPC, and initiated a probe into the same.

As per the police, the victim lived with her husband, Mukesh Shah, who owns a jewellery shop in Mumbai.

“The house-help, who was recently recruited, is reportedly missing since the time of the incident,” they added.

More details are awaited.

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New Delhi:

A 79-year-old woman was found dead inside her house in southwest Delhi’s Jia Sarai area with an injury on her neck, police said on Tuesday.

On Sunday around 11 pm, a PCR call was received at Kishangarh police station about the incident, a senior police officer said.

After police reached the spot, they found that the body of a woman — identified as Krishna Devi — was lying in a pool of blood. The front side of her neck had a deep wound, police said.

According to police, one Mamta, who runs a small kitchen for students, used to provide food to Krishna Devi.

On Sunday around 9:30 pm, she came to deliver her food but found that the light was switched off. She called a person from the second floor and found her lying in her room, police said. No sign of robbery or burglary has been observed so far, the officer said.

The body was sent to Safdarjung Hospital for the autopsy and the spot was inspected by the crime team and forensics, police said.

A case under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC has been registered at Kishangarh police station and investigation is under progress, they added.

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