A senior Delhi Jal Board (DJB) employee, who was found dead inside a flat in Northwest Delhi’s Begumpur, was likely killed during a robbery, the police said on Wednesday. The decomposed body of Suresh Kumar Rathi (59) was found inside his first floor flat with a stab injury on his neck on Monday, they added.

The police suspect that the murder was committed by a person known to the victim. Rathi was seen going to the flat on October 31 with a person wearing a hoodie. The police recovered two liquor bottles and some packets of cigarette from the crime scene.

Rathi’s family lived in a different flat and it remained mostly vacant. It was sometimes used by the deceased.

“The body was found in a decomposed state and it appears the murder was committed on October 31 by a person known to Rathi,

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