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A chilling lawsuit has emerged successful Hyderabad, wherever Tanuja Ranjan, the spouse of a erstwhile IPS officer, was recovered dormant successful her home. Investigators fishy foul play by a home idiosyncratic and an accomplice, who allegedly smothered her aft restraining her. It appears that the motive down this horrific enactment was theft, with important valuables disappearing from the scene.
HYDERABAD: The woman of retired Andhra Pradesh cadre IPS serviceman Vinay Ranjan Ray was recovered murdered astatine their residence successful the upscale Prashasan Nagar, Jubilee Hills, connected Friday morning.The victim, 62-year-old Tanuja Ranjan, was allegedly smothered to death. Police fishy that a home assistance from Nepal, employed by the household for implicit a year, orchestrated the transgression and fled with valuables.Ray, a 1986-batch IPS officer, retired arsenic DG, Prisons, successful 2019. The household occupies the archetypal and 2nd floors of their three-storeyed residence located connected Plot No. 46, Street No. 7, Prashasan Nagar. The crushed level had been rented retired to different family.While Ray had travelled to Bengaluru astir a week agone connected idiosyncratic work, his woman Tanuja and their 2 daughters remained astatine home. On Thursday night, Tanuja retired to her chamber connected the archetypal floor, portion the daughters slept successful abstracted rooms connected the 2nd floor.At astir 9.15 americium connected Friday, different home idiosyncratic repeatedly rang the doorbell. One of the daughters, Sunanda, came downstairs and opened the door. When the maid, Kalpana, could not beryllium found, Sunanda entered her mother’s chamber and recovered her lying unconscious connected the floor, with a blood-stained cloth stuffed into her mouth, and her hands and legs were tied.

Tanuja was rushed to a adjacent hospital, wherever doctors declared her dead, said an investigator.According to aesculapian introspection report, the unfortunate sustained aggregate abrasions connected the lips, ligature marks connected the wrists, and a wound wounded to the extremity of the tongue.
Police fishy engagement of Nepali pack successful execution of retd IPS officer’s wife
City constabulary commissioner VC Sajjanar said the execution was suspected to person taken spot astatine astir 2 am.“The assailants tied up her hands and legs and smothered her.
A cloth was stuffed into her rima to forestall her from screaming oregon raising an alarm. We fishy a Nepali pack to beryllium down the murder. This appears to beryllium a wide lawsuit of execution for gain,” the commissioner said.Sajjanar said the home assistance had initially been hired to attraction of Ray’s mother, aboriginal taking complaint of household upkeep.“Kalpana was residing with the household successful the aforesaid location and was observing the movements of the household members.
She planned the execution and facilitated the gang’s introduction into the house. She has been missing since the incident,” Sajjanar said.Investigators fishy that, isolated from Kalpana, 3 unidentified men participated successful the crime. The accused allegedly escaped with a container believed to incorporate stolen valuables. Police said the execution suspects travelled by auto-rickshaw from Jubilee Hills to Nampally railway station.
Investigators fishy the accused boarded the Telangana Express and fled towards Nagpur.During the preliminary probe, constabulary recovered that Tanuja had spent clip with her daughters until astir 11.30 pm, aft which the daughters went upstairs to the 2nd floor. Investigators said the daughters remained awake until astir 3 americium but did not perceive immoderate disturbance.Speaking to TOI , Suresh, a operator employed by the family, said CCTV footage captured 3 unidentified men entering the bungalow done main gross astatine astir 1 am.
They exited betwixt 2 americium and 2.30 am. “They were not wearing masks. While leaving, 2 of them were carrying robust rods and 1 was holding a bag,” helium said.The Jubilee Hills constabulary filed a lawsuit nether Sections 103 (1) and 309(2) of the BNS, pertaining to execution and robbery, based connected Sunanda’s complaint. Police said the household is yet to supply a implicit database of the missing valuables. Following the post-mortem introspection astatine OGH, the assemblage was handed implicit to the family. Police person formed 10 teams to apprehend the accused.
