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Delhi: Fashion designer, domestic help stabbed to death in Vasant Kunj

Police suspect that the designer Mala Lakhani was killed by her three employees, who were upset about not getting salary on time.

Delhi: Fashion designer, domestic help stabbed to death in Vasant Kunj

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A 53-year-old fashion designer, identified as Mala Lakhani, and her 42-year-old servant Bahadur Singh were found dead inside her Vasant Kunj Enclave home in south Delhi on Thursday morning.

According to the media reports, both were stabbed with knives late Wednesday night. Police have so far arrested three people in connection with the murders and they are currently being interrogated.

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Police suspect that the designer was killed by her three employees, who were upset about not getting salary on time.

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Lakhani used to run a boutique in Green Park.

The incident came to light as the locals, who found that the entrance door of her house was ajar, informed the police. Police rushed to the spot at around 3 am and found the dead bodies lying in a pool of blood.

Police is also investigating the angle of robbery for which they could have been murdered.

An FIR has been registered in the case and the police have sent the bodies for postmortem examination to AIIMS.

 

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