{"id":18472,"date":"2026-06-08T16:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/she-welcomed-them-in-offered-water-police-reveal-chilling-details-of-du-professor-debosmita-pauls-final-moments-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:36:34","slug":"she-welcomed-them-in-offered-water-police-reveal-chilling-details-of-du-professor-debosmita-pauls-final-moments-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/she-welcomed-them-in-offered-water-police-reveal-chilling-details-of-du-professor-debosmita-pauls-final-moments-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;She welcomed them in, offered water&#8217;: Police reveal chilling details of DU professor Debosmita Paul&#8217;s final moments | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131583984,imgsize-30782,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/-.jpg\" alt=\"'She welcomed them in, offered water': Police reveal chilling details of DU professor Debosmita Paul's final moments\" title=\"A Delhi University professor was brutally murdered by a couple she had welcomed into her home, offering them water\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"A Delhi University professor was brutally murdered by a couple she had welcomed into her home, offering them water\">A Delhi University professor was brutally murdered by a couple she had welcomed into her home, offering them water<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: What began as a routine meeting inside a residential flat turned into a brutal murder of Delhi University assistant professor Debosmita Paul, with police revealing that she had \u201cwelcomed them in and offered water\u201d to the couple now accused of killing her.<!-- --> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The incident, cops say, stems from a long-running dispute over a multi-crore ancestral property in West Bengal that allegedly became the motive for the crime.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Police have arrested a couple from Bardhaman and detained their 13-year-old son, who was reportedly brought along to Delhi in an attempt to \u201cblend in\u201d as a normal family. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>According to officials, the family had been staying in a property linked to Paul\u2019s share in a family settlement and had repeatedly tried to persuade her to sell it, but she refused and asked them to vacate.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Investigators say tensions escalated after a final eviction warning, following which the couple allegedly planned the attack and travelled to Delhi using forged identity details.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/> <\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"-\" msid=\"131584575\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131584575\/.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>They checked into a guest house and later reached the Vasundhara Enclave apartment where the professor lived.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>CCTV footage and police interrogation suggest the couple entered the flat after being received by Paul, who offered them water during the conversation. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>The meeting reportedly turned violent shortly after a fresh dispute over the property, leading to her killing inside the apartment in east Delhi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Police said the suspects attempted to evade detection by using fake Aadhaar-linked identities, multiple modes of transport, and careful movement patterns while travelling between West Bengal and Delhi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>A manhunt across states eventually led investigators to West Bengal, where the accused were traced and apprehended before being brought to Delhi for further interrogation. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Officials said multiple forensic and digital evidence, including mobile tracking and CCTV analysis, helped reconstruct their movements before and after the crime.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at New Ashok Nagar police station, and further investigation is underway.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/she-welcomed-them-in-offered-water-police-reveal-chilling-details-of-du-professor-debosmita-pauls-final-moments\/articleshow\/131583859.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi University professor was brutally murdered by a couple she had welcomed into her home, offering them water NEW DELHI: What began as a routine meeting inside a residential flat turned into a brutal murder of Delhi University assistant professor Debosmita Paul, with police revealing that she had \u201cwelcomed them in and offered water\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}