An Uttar Pradesh resident, who was out on parole after being jailed in a double murder case, went on to choke another woman in Ludhiana and then fled to UP.
45-year-old Mohan Singh, a resident of Maharajgunj in Uttar Pradesh, was jailed in a double murder case back in 2003. Mohan Singh was imprisoned for life.
He was recently granted parole when he said he worked as a painter at the residence of his latest victim, reported The Hindustan Times. Mohan Singh painted the doors and windows of 30-year-old Megha Malhotra when he saw her keeping her cash in a cupboard.
This is when he hatched a plan to rob the woman. The police said that Mohan Singh had deliberately left his work at the house incomplete. When the woman later called him up to finish the work, he turned up at a time when the victim’s husband had left for work.
The police commissioner said that when Mohan Singh was convinced that the victim was alone at the house, he tried to snatch her bag when she resisted. He then attacked her and strangulated her with his handkerchief.
He was apparently unaware of that fact that the woman’s toddler was sleeping in the next room, otherwise he may have killed him as well, said the police.
Police have recovered Rs 5,000 cash and the woman’s handbag from the accused, who was later nabbed from Uttar Pradesh.
The victim’s neighbours were the first who came to know of the incident upon hearing the toddler’s cries. They then informed her husband who rushed home to find his wife dead. He informed the police who later found out that the accused had a past crime record.