Hoshiarpur, February 19 A 90-year-old woman was murdered by a robber who stuffed her body inside an iron trunk in a village here, police said on Thursday.
The victim, Joginder Kaur, was a resident of Bham village in the Chabbewal area.
Her body was found late Wednesday evening, stuffed inside the trunk and bearing injury marks on the head, they said.
Police have registered an FIR against a man – identified as Daniel from the same village – under Sections 103 (punishment for murder) and 331(3) (lurking house-trespass or house-breaking to commit an offence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Preliminary investigation suggests that the accused allegedly entered the house with the intention of theft and killed the elderly woman during the robbery attempt, they said.
Daniel is currently at large, and efforts are underway to apprehend him, they added.