Overview
- Police allege Dr Manish Gupta attacked Meena, a 45-year-old domestic worker, with a cricket bat and a knife on Thursday at a Mount/Greater Kailash terrace and was arrested at the scene.
- Officers recovered the bat and a blood-soaked knife, sent the body for postmortem and are examining nearby CCTV and forensic evidence to reconstruct the sequence of events.
- A Delhi court remanded Gupta to two days of police custody to allow investigators to question him further and probe whether others were involved.
- Gupta has given varying accounts to police, including an unproven claim that the victim practised black magic, while investigators are also reviewing his decade-long mental-health treatment and medication history.
- The killing prompted large protests by domestic workers and neighbours demanding swift action and has heightened local unease after a separate high-profile murder in the area earlier this year.