Dabri murder: ‘Lover’ stabbed woman,killed self

The violence unfolded in front of the woman’s three-year-old daughter,whose screams alerted her father.

Poonam,a Nepal national,was in love with one Pintu who supplied gas cylinders in Janakpuri. She,however,married one Munna in Chanakya Place in Janakpuri but continued seeing Pintu.

Getting a hint of Poonam’s extra-marital affair,her husband moved the family to street number 6 in Sitapuri in Dabri around a year-and-a-half ago. According to Munna’s statement,on Thursday morning he was at his export-import office located just below their Dabri home,when Pintu arrived.

Pintu went to his house and did not return for a long time. Around 10 am,he heard his three-year-old daughter’s screams and rushed upstairs to find Poonam and Pintu lying in a pool of blood.

Police sources said that the murder was premeditated. Pintu stabbed Poonam 17 times in her face,chest and stomach.

“The post mortem report says Pintu’s injuries were self-inflicted. He succumbed to

injuries at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital,” a senior police officer said. Police said the case of murder registered against unknown persons has now been changed to murder and suicide against Pintu. Munna,who had been detained for questioning,has been released.