Unidentified criminals stabbed a 43-year-old woman, said to be a relative of Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das, in Jamshedpur city, police said on Wednesday.
Khemlata Devi's killing took place at Kadama locality on Tuesday night, an officer said.
Her husband Kartik Ram, who works for Tata Steel, returned home around 10 p.m. on Tuesday and found her dead.
"My wife was lying in a pool of blood. The killers took away the two mobile phones from our house," said Ram.
--IANS
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