Woman from Mizoram murdered in Delhi (Third Lead)

A 27-year-old woman from Mizoram was stabbed to death at her home here even as a party was going on in the one-room tenement, police said Friday.

Police have detained Juliet Zonunmawi's male partner and some of her friends, who were attending the party at her one-room flat in south Delhi's Munirka area.

Zonunmawi, a resident of Aizawl in Mizoram, was taken to Safdarjung Hospital around 11 p.m. Thursday by her male partner Virender Singh but doctors declared her brought dead.

She was found lying in a pool of blood with head injury as well as stab wounds in her abdomen and thigh, police said citing the victim's friends. Blood stains showing the imprints of footwear were also found on the stairs.

"A Central Forensic Science Laboratory team has collected all the evidences from the spot and her body has been sent for postmortem. A medical team has also been constituted to conduct the postmortem," said a police official.

"No arrest has been made yet as a probe is still on and they are also waiting for the victim's postmortem report," said the official.

Police said Zonunmawi had come to Delhi around five years ago and had been staying in Munirka for the last few months with Singh, a resident of Haldwani in Uttarakhand.

Zonunmawi was working in a call centre in Gurgaon while Singh was preparing for the civil services exam.

People from the northeast gathered outside the local police station and protested against the attacks on people from the region.

Early this year, a 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh was beaten to death by three shopkeepers in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area.