A video showing the last moments of the 18-year-old woman who was murdered inside the trial room of a cloth showroom in Delhi has emerged.
The CCTV footage shows the victim sitting in a chair barely a few feet from the glass door. A man wearing an orange T-shirt entered the showroom and attacked her right away.
The accused assaulted her and forced her to stand up by pulling her hair. The woman was seen crying as the man dragged her into the trial room, where she was later found in a pool of blood with her throat slit.
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The victim has been identified as Shabnam and the accused as Suraj.
Shabnam worked at the showroom near the Moti Nagar Metro Station and lived with her family in West Delhi. She knew the accused.
Police said she was about to end her shift on Saturday evening when Suraj barged into the showroom and allegedly murdered her inside the trial room. Investigators believe the accused and the victim had earlier shared a close friendship but had broken up.
The employees of the showroom came to know about the murder only at around 9 pm on Saturday. They stumbled upon Shabnam lying in a pool of blood when they checked the trial rooms while preparing to shut the shop.
They alerted the police. The accused was attempting to flee Delhi, but the police managed to arrest him.
The body has been sent for a post-mortem examination.
Police are examining CCTV footage from the showroom to reconstruct the sequence of events.
Officials said all possible angles are being investigated, including the possibility that the murder stemmed from unrequited love and personal disputes between the accused and the victim.
