In a shocking incident, on Friday a 24-year-old married woman was stabbed to death by a 27-year-old man in front of her 4-year-old son, inside the woman’s house. The man killed the woman in south Delhi’s Chirag Dilli and then attempted to kill himself by slitting his throat.
According to the Indian Express, the man was identified as Sunny, is recuperating at a city hospital. And the woman has been identified as Pinkey Chauhan, who worked at a beauty parlour. The cops have said that Sunny was carrying a handwritten letter with him in which he wrote that “he is debt-ridden and both of them have decided to die”. He also wrote that their bodies should be cremated together. Pinkey Chauhan lived in a rented house in Chirag Dilli where she had recently moved in on June 16, with her husband, Ravinder, who works as a mechanic at an automobile company and a 4-year-old son.
The preliminary probe revealed that Pinkey knew Sunny, a driver from Ambedkar Nagar, for four years. On the day of the incident, Sunny arrived at Pinkey's house when her husband was not around. A police official told the leading daily, “While he was inside the house, they had an argument and Sunny took out a long knife used to chop meat and stabbed Pinkey five to six times. He then slit his throat using the same knife and collapsed. In the note, he wrote that their bodies should be cremated together. He also said he is debt-ridden and that Pinkey’s husband had borrowed money from him, which he is not returning.”
The police officer further added that Pinkey's husband came to know about Sunny around Holi this year. A few days later, according to family members and friends, Pinkey had left her husband to marry Sunny, but returned because of legal hassles, he said. The cops have registered a case of murder against the man, who is likely to survive the suicide attempt. They have also recovered the knife from the spot and are currently investigating the incident from all possible angles.
