AHMEDABAD: A woman who was her husband’s accomplice in the bloody slaughter of four people at a Kadi temple on April 2, 2004, has been finally found in Delhi, where she innocuously brewed tea at her stall.
The woman, identified as Rajkumari alias Disco Saroj, now 50, was held by the Ahmedabad crime branch in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj on Thursday.
Rajkumari and her husband, Govind Yadav, had murdered an elderly NRI, a priestess, and two others.
Yadav had been nabbed by the Gujarat anti-terrorism squad (ATS) from Simthara village in Madhya Pradesh on August 13, 2020.
The state government had announced an award of Rs 50,000 for information on the accused.
The couple was working at Mahakali Mata temple in Utava village in Kadi.
Yadav was a security guard and Rajkumari was a sanitation worker.
The couple decided to kill the four to take away cash and valuables from the temple.
Their greed led them to slay the US NRI, Chiman Patel, 70, the temple trustee; the priestess, Samtanandpurna Saraswati Mataji, 35; and two sevaks, Mohan Luhar and Karman Luhar.
On the night of April 2, 2004, Patel’s daughter-in-law Sudha found him dead in the temple office with his throat slit.
She filed a complaint with Mehsana Police.
The priestess’s body was found in a pool of blood in the bathroom and the bodies of Mohan and Karman were found in a similar gory condition in a closed room of the ashram on the temple campus.
Only Yadav and his wife were missing, making them the prime suspects.
Yadav soon assumed a new name, Mahendrasingh.
Crime branch officers said that after killing the four persons, the duo decamped with cash and valuables.
Their loot was estimated to be worth Rs 10 lakh.
They settled in New Delhi, where Rajkumari kept changing her name.
Last year, a team of the Gujarat ATS traced their location but only succeeded in nabbing Yadav.
Rajkumari managed to flee.
Later, a team of the Ahmedabad crime branch stationed in New Delhi identified Rajkumari.
At that stage she used to run a tea stall in Vasant Kunj.
17 years on, killer of 4 caught in Delhi
