Chilling details of Noida lawyer murder case: Ex-IIS officer kept hiding, called property broker to house

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₹4.5 crore -- in posh Sector 30 of Noida on Sunday, while his wife Renu Sinha (61) objected to it.Sinha allegedly strangled his wife to death around 9.30 am after the heated argument. Such fights had become frequent between them. The wife suffered from cancer and had a fragile health condition while their son worked and lived in the US, officials said.

"Around 12 pm, Sinha even had a visitor at home. It was a property broker with whom Sinha was negotiating the deal for selling off his paternal house and had taken an advance of ₹55 lakh," an officer privy to the investigation told PTI. "The retired man had left his wife's body in the bathroom attached to a room on the ground floor and went to attend the broker.

Exuding alacrity, he then took the broker to the upper floor of the house, telling him that both the floors of the house were designed in a similar fashion," the officer said. This store room measuring less than 5 ft by 5 ft was located in the "almost unused" second floor of the two-storey house, which was at the centre of the dispute between the couple. The broker left the house around 1 pm and when Sinha went back to the bathroom, he was sure that his wife had died.

There was no movement whatsoever to suggest any life remaining. A little time went by and he started getting phone calls from his brother-in-law Ajay, whose phone calls to his sister Renu had been going unanswered since Saturday. "Worried over the whereabouts of his sister, Ajay, who lives in Sector 45 of the city, had approached the local police around 3 pm.

He then went to the house himself and later the police also reached there. The locks at the entry gate of the property and the main door were broken for entry," the police officer said. In the