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Day after elderly woman’s murder, Sarita Vihar RWA wants gates to stop outsiders

Outside Savitri’s house, a trail of blood begins from the door and leads to the main street before vanishing. Police said the lone CCTV outside the house was non-functional.

At the site in Pocket-L, Sarita Vihar. (Prem Nath Pandey)

During an event a year ago, residents of Pocket-L in Sarita Vihar were told by the district’s former senior police officers that their block was a model residential area due to an active engagement with police, installation of CCTV cameras and up-to-date security arrangements.  On Saturday, 72-year-old Savitri Pandey was found with her throat slit at her house in the 30-year-old colony. Following the incident, the Residents’ Welfare Association (RWA) told police that “outsiders” enter the area from a disputed site nearby and they want to erect a gate at the spot.

“There are two main gates for entry and exit. But people from the nearby village enter our block to get to a DDA park; we want this to stop. There is also a disputed site next to our colony; it has no gate. Sometimes, residents have to stop outsiders from entering the colony. If we get a permanent gate, this will stop,” L Block RWA president, Mukesh Wadhwa, told The Indian Express. Savitri’s husband R K Pandey, the former executive director of the Delhi Stock Exchange, found her body after he returned home from a meeting around 6 pm. DCP (southeast) Chinmoy Biswal had said that “the entry to the house seemed friendly and it was not ransacked”.

But her son Sanjay Pandey, a chartered accountant, claimed: “My mother’s earrings, gold bangles and a necklace were missing.” Sanjay was at his house located behind his mother’s home when the incident took place.

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Outside Savitri’s house, a trail of blood begins from the door and leads to the main street before vanishing. Police said the lone CCTV outside the house was non-functional. There are 45 CCTVs in the colony, which the RWA members claimed were functional, and police collected footage till 2 am on Sunday.

Officials said the pocket has 45 senior citizens above the age of 70. Police are also probing if workers at a construction site opposite Savitri’s house could be involved in the crime, and have made a list of all workers and other maintenance staffers in the colony. Meanwhile, Sarita Vihar SHO Sanjay Sinha visited the spot on Sunday and was led by RWA members to a boundary wall broken in several places, as well as the exit to the DDA park. Sinha advised them to “barricade their walls with barbed wire”.

First uploaded on: 19-11-2018 at 01:31 IST
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