A desperate phone call, a husband allegedly announcing a killing in real time, and a brother forced to listen helplessly to his sister’s screams — these were the chilling final moments of a 27-year-old Delhi Police SWAT commando who later died after being brutally assaulted at her Delhi home.
Kajal, posted with the Special Cell of Delhi Police and four months pregnant, was at her residence in Mohan Garden when the attack took place.
“He told me to put the call on recording, said it could be used as police evidence; (then) told me he was killing her. And then, I heard her screams,” recalled Kajal Chaudhary’s brother Nikhil, his voice trembling as he described the horror of January 22, when Kajal’s husband allegedly smashed her head with a heavy dumbbell.
Kajal, posted with the Special Cell of Delhi Police, was at her residence in Mohan Garden when the attack took place. Her husband, Ankur, a clerk in the Ministry of Defence and posted in Delhi Cantt, was arrested hours later. After battling for life for five days, she succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Ghaziabad on the morning of January 27.
Nikhil, a constable posted at Parliament Street Police Station, told PTI that the sequence began with a call from Ankur. “He called me and said, ‘Apni behen ko samjha le’ (Make your sister understand). I asked him to calm down and immediately called my sister,” he said.
