Ludhiana, May 17

The city police have cracked the blind murder case of a 29-year-old woman, identified as Megha Malhotra, at her residence on the 33-feet road in Mundian Kalan here on May 10. Cops have arrested one Mohan Singh, a painter, from his hideout in Basti district in Uttar Pradesh.

The accused is a native of Dhangarhi village in Mehrajganj district of Uttar Pradesh.

The Commissioner of Police (CP), Rakesh Agrawal, said the police had recovered a purse, Aadhaar card and an ATM card, all in the name of the deceased woman, along with Rs5,000 out of stolen money, the scarf used for strangulating the woman and some other incriminating material.

The CP said the accused was already undergoing life imprisonment for the murder of a woman, Poonam, and her domestic servant, Chhotu, in a house in Shastri Nagar in May 2003. The accused had recently come out on parole in June 2020.

“He had taken up the work of painting in the deceased’s house. Finding her alone with her child, he entered the house on May 10, strangled her, stole cash and valuables and fled,” said Agrawal. — OC