Police have arrested a couple in connection with the murder of Delhi University assistant professor Dr Debosmita Paul in New Ashok Nagar.
The couple who were arrested from West Bengal were known to the victim.
Their motive appears to have been a property dispute.
At the time of the murder, the man and the woman also had their child with them, whom they left outside the professor's apartment before going inside and attacking her.
Police say that the professor’s maternal grandfather owned a property in West Bengal. The couple wanted to purchase it, but the professor refused to sell it.
Some of her other family members reportedly wanted to sell the land.
The couple was reportedly living at the property as tenants.
Debosmita had refused several times to sell the land. Following the accused, who reportedly travelled to Delhi, over 1,400 kilometres, to confront her directly .
The situation reportedly escalated, and the situation turned violent.
Debosmita Paul, 42, was found dead in her apartment in east Delhi’s Vasundhara Enclave on Thursday.
She taught English at Shivaji College, Delhi University and lived alone in the Satyam Apartment; her parents resided nearby.
When police rushed to the spot after receiving a call from the victim’s sister, who had found the body, they saw that the victim had severe head injuries on a bed.
Preliminary investigations suggest she was attacked with a blunt object.
