The wife of a senior BJP leader and former UP minister was found murdered at her residence here on Saturday.
The body of Revati Singh, 75, wife of BJP deputy leader in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Hukkum Singh, was found in the bedroom of her Gandhi colony house on Saturday morning and circumstantial evidence indicate that she was murdered, additional director general of police (ADG) Brij Lal said.
The police said there was a ligature mark on her neck and swelling between nose and upper lip. They suspect that at least two persons were involved in the murder.
“It seems that her mouth was pressed with a pillow and later she was strangulated with her scarf,” the Mr Lal told reporters in Lucknow.
The ADG said that a pillow and scarf were found from the bedroom and ruled out the possibility of murder for loot as all the belonging of Revati, including a gold chain, diamond earrings, bangles and her mobile phone were found in the room.
Mr Singh, who is BJP MLA from Kairana, was in Lucknow at the time of the incident. The ADG said that two servants Sankar and Ajay hailing from Bihar along with Singh’s grandson Anuj Singh lived with Revati.
“They used to live in the house adjacent to Singh’s bungalow, which is separated by a door,” Mr Brij Lal said.
He said that Revati used to lock all the doors before going to sleep, which she opened only in the morning. “Last night also she closed all the doors. When the connecting door did not open this morning Anuj and the servants entered the house using a ladder and found Revati dead,” he said.