Two days after a 30-year-old man
was arrested in connection with the murder of an Uzbek woman, the police have not yet been able to track down his female associate despite conducting several raids in Delhi and Haryana.
The Special Task Force (STF) of Delhi Police's south district has been roped in and a special team is trying to work out the case in coordination with Haryana Police at Panipat, said a police official.
The absconding woman, identified as Naaz, an Uzbek woman aged around 40 years, was one of the suspects named by the victim's relatives in connection with her alleged abduction, which later turned around to be a case of murder, said the official.
Naaz's name was also disclosed by Gagan alias Gurvinder (30), the "placement agent" who later turned out to be an accused, as the prime suspect in the case throughout the time during which he allegedly kept misleading the police, said the official.
A police team had been looking for Naaz, who occasionaly lived with the 28-year-old victim at her rented accommodation in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj, for the past few weeks and the search intensified -- with the STF roped in -- after Gagan's confession on Sunday.
So far, investigators are going by Gagan's version of the story, according to which Naaz had a dispute with the victim for the latter allegedly driving away her clients in the past few years.
The victim and Naaz had claimed that they were belly dancers at private parties.
Things got murkier when Naaz connived with Gagan, to whom the victim allegedly owed money, and hatched a plan to eliminate the victim.
At the same time, the victim's mother alleged that Naaz, Gagan and the driver, on whose complaint the police registered an abduction case almost two weeks after the woman was reported missing, are key members of a human trafficking racket who were forcing her daughter into the business.
These are all versions which are being probed. The conclusion can be derived only after Naaz is interrogated, said a senior official.
The police had a tip-off that Naaz went to Haryana after the murder of her associate and Gagan has so far claimed to have no idea about Naaz's whereabouts. Phone details, suggesting Naaz's presence in Haryana a few weeks ago, further strengthened the suspicion, said the official.
