Kolkata double muder: Former domestic help arrested

Kolkata | Wednesday | 20th October, 2021

Summary:

Kolkata, Oct 20 (PTI) Kolkata Police detectives probing the murder of Subir Chaki, chief executive of a leading engineering firm and his driver, arrested a woman on Wednesday who was a former domestic help in the house where the murders took place, a senior police officer said.

The bodies of Chaki (61) and his driver Rabin Mondal (65) were found with multiple stab injuries on their neck, legs and back on different floors of the ancestral house of the executive in south Kolkata"s posh Gariahat area on Sunday night.

The 42-year-old woman, was on Wednesday morning detained in Diamond Harbour, about 52 km from here, and brought to Lalbazar, the headquarters of the Kokata Police in the city, where she was arrested after hours of grilling , the officer said.

During interrogation, she "confessed of being part of the conspiracy to execute the crime", he said.

Two other persons were also brought from Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas district and are being grilled for their suspected involvement in the crime, he added.

"This woman is a former domestic help who used to take care of Mr Chaki"s mother when he used to go out of the city,” he said.