Ahmedabad: Right when the city began to explode in Diwali celebrations, the elderly pair was killed brutally with their throat gap by unknown people in the Rannapark area in Ghatlodiya on Tuesday night.
Police officials said that prima facie, robbery appears to be the motive behind the gruesome murder even when they are investigating other angles as well.
The couple, identified as Shanbuag (90) and his wife Vijyalakshmi Shanbug (80), was found killed at their residence at Parasmani Flats.
Shanbuag’s rituation (in Tee White), the grandson of the people who died at that time the nonagenarian people were found in bed with blood dripping from the throat of his gap, his wife had died in the chair.
Until late at night, no arrests were made in this case.
Senior police official said the murder was revealed around 8 pm on Tuesday when a boy from a local chemist shop came to give medicines ordered over the phone.
When knocking on the door failed to get a reply, the boy contacted a neighbor who went to call the couple only to find they were killed brutally.
The couple’s son and his wife live in a house in Adalaj while their daughter lived with her grandparents in a neighboring flat.
He is reported to have stepped out of his house when it happened.
Ghatlodiya police along with the crime branch team, forensic experts and dog squad swooped on the murder site.
Zone-1 DCP Ravindra Patel said that prima facie robbery could be the motive behind the killing although they are investigating all possible angles that cause crime.
Cupboard found to be faulty: Copscops said that the closet in the bedroom elderly was found broken even as earrings that adorn the old woman’s ear intact.
However, the gruesome murder rob Festival Farmor environment when community residents looked shocked by the murder.
Ketan Shah, lived in Parasmani Flats over the past few decades, says this is the first double murder incident in the area.
“This is a serious crime and we are all in shock.
There is only one CCTV camera at the entrance to the community,” said Shah.
Locals say that a child feeding were also seen entering the building late at night.
The incident came as a grim reminder of Gory murder of the elderly couple in the city Hebatpur in March of this year.
Ashok Patel and Jyotsna Patel, residents of the No-1 bungalow at the SMANtivan Palace Society at Badpur Crossroads were killed by four people at their residence at 5 in the morning with robbery intentions.
Then, five people, including four executive and the perpetrators get caught up in this case.
The recent incidents in the city’s murder casts doubt on claims of the police to protect senior citizens.