Women doctor's murder: Delhi Police arrest flatmate from Roorkee

NEW DELHI: The crime branch of Delhi Police has arrested

Dr Chandra Prakash Verma

for murdering his girlfriend,

Dr Garima Mishra

in central Delhi's Ranjit Nagar area on Tuesday night. He was caught from

Roorkee

in Uttarakhand.


Twenty five-year-old Dr Garima Mishra, working in a private hospital, was stabbed to death in her flat and police suspect the role of Dr Verma who has been on the since the murder.

Police suspect that Garima Mishra, who was to return home to Gorakhpur on Wednesday, had an argument with Chandra Prakash Verma during which he attacked her with a kitchen knife.

According to Gautam Khurana, the flat owner, Mishra’s cousin reached the apartment at 10.45pm on Tuesday enquiring about her whereabouts. He told Khurana that they were to board a bus to Gorakhpur from

Dhaula Kuan

, but her phone had been unreachable since 8pm.

The cousin became visibly agitated on doing this, and the third flatmate, Rakesh, broke open the padlock. Khurana recalled finding Mishra lying in a pool of blood near her bed. Her belongings, all packed, lay in one corner. Her throat was slit and there was a stab wound on her body. A broken kitchen knife was found near the body.

Footage from a CCTV camera showed Verma leaving the house around 7.45pm on Tuesday. Rakesh claimed that Verma had left with a backpack, telling him that he was going out to return some books to a friend. He had subsequently switched off the phone.

Verma, a resident of Bahraich in UP, had completed his MBBS from a Lucknow college and is a junior doctor in the hospital.

Apparently, Mishra had quit her job to return home and pursue higher studies. She had got her MBBS degree from a college in Gorakhpur. Her father, Badrinath Mishra, lives with her elder brother and sister, both engineers, in Bengaluru.


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