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British woman murdered in Srinagar houseboat, Dutchman held
Saturday April 06, 2013 10:17:18 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: A
24-year-old British woman was found murdered Saturday in a
houseboat on Dal Lake here and the alleged murderer - a Dutch
national, living on the same boat - has been arrested and has
confessed to the crime, police said.
The Dutchman had fled the houseboat early Saturday morning, but
police found him at south Kashmir's Qazigund town. He was brought
back to Srinagar and confessed to the murder. A case of murder has
been registered in the Ram Munshi Bagh police station.
"A general alert was sounded across the Valley for the arrest of
De-wit Richard, who had left the houseboat in the wee hours
Saturday. He was arrested at Qazigund," said Deputy Inspector
General (DIG), central Kashmir range, Syed Afadul Mujtaba,
Qazigund in Anantnag district is about 80 km from Srinagar.
"He (Richard) had left all his belongs in the houseboat, and had
fled with just his passport. He has been brought to Srinagar," the
police officer said.
Police sources said the arrested foreigner had confessed murdering
the woman, but was refusing to accept he had sexually assaulted
the woman.
Police officials said they are awaiting the autopsy report to
establish whether the woman had been raped before the murder.
A senior police officer told IANS that a team of doctors at the
super specialty Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences
(SKIMS) Soura conducted the autopsy. According to hospital
sources, it confirmed the woman died of multiple stab wounds.
Authorities have already got into touch with the British High
Commission in Delhi and also spoken to the father of the victim on
phone in Britain.
The owner of the "New Beauty" houseboat told IANS that the
24-year-old British woman victim had been staying in the houseboat
for nearly two months. The Dutchman had only begun his stay on the
boat two days back, in a room adjacent to the British tourist's.
Abdul Rahim Shoda, owner of the houseboat, said he found the body
of the woman with stab wounds in her room on the houseboat
Saturday morning.
"I immediately reported the matter to police," Shoda said.
"To reach the bank of the Lake, Richard used a small shikara
(boat) attached to the houseboat. The shikara had capsized some
distance from the houseboat, but he must have managed to reach the
bank," Shoda said.
The 18 sq km Dal Lake in Srinagar is dotted with over 1,000
houseboats. Along the lake's shoreline are many vast gardens that
go back to the Mughal era.
George Harrison of the Beatles famously lived in a houseboat and
learnt to play the sitar from Pandit Ravi Shankar in the 1960s.
Last year, over a million tourists visited the Kashmir Valley;
over 20,000 of them were foreigners.
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