Overview
- The victim, 60-year-old Rakesh Khanna, was found unconscious in his Rohini Sector 3 home and was declared brought dead at Jaipur Golden Hospital after family returned Tuesday evening.
- Police allege the niece, identified as 23‑year‑old Simran Taneja, organised a recce on August 30 and recruited three associates to carry out a premeditated robbery.
- Officers detained or arrested three people — Simran, a gym trainer named Chirag and a youth named Paras — while a fourth accused, Himanshu, is reported absconding and being sought in raids.
- Around Rs 70,000–72,400 in cash and some gold jewellery have been recovered, short of the roughly Rs 1.5 lakh and other items reported missing from the ransacked house.
- A murder-and-robbery case has been registered at South Rohini Police Station, the post-mortem and forensic findings are pending to establish exact cause of death and specific roles of the accused, and investigators say the motive appears linked to knowledge of a recent property sale.