Army public school teacher from Panchkula stabbed 25 times, body found in car

The schoolteacher went missing from Panchkula’s Sector 20 market, where she had gone to buy pizza with her son
A 39-year-old woman schoolteacher was found dead in her car with at least 25 stab wounds on her body hours after she had gone to buy pizza with her 15-year-old son at Panchkula’s Sector-20 market on Thursday night.
With her son still at the pizza shop at 9:30pm, the victim, Reena Devi (39), who taught at Shaurya Army Public School, Chandimandir Cantonment, went missing with her car only to be found brutally murdered inside her vehicle at Bhander Ghati on the Chandimandir-Ramgarh road after midnight.
She lived with her two sons in a flat at Peer Muchalla near Sector 20 while her husband Sandeep Kumar, a retired armyman, works as security in-charge at a factory in Baddi. He visited the family on weekends.
The vehicle was spotted by a police control room (PCR) van. Police have taken in custody CCTV footage from Sector 20 market. In the post-mortem conducted on the body on Friday it was found that she was stabbed with sharp-edged weapon and deep injuries were found on her head, chest, lower body parts and liver. She died of multiple organ failure, the report said.
No clear lead so far
Chandimandir station house officer (SHO) Mohit Handa said the reason behind the murder was not clear. “We are investigating the matter.” The victim’s son, who was accompanying her on Thursday night, told the police that he returned home after he did not find her at the market.
Two bottles of liquor, as many cigarette stubs and a helmet were found in the car. There is a possibility that she was with someone before the murder, the police said. The police are not sure as to why the boy did not raise an alarm after he did not find his mother in the market.
’Killed by someone with a lot of aggression’
One of the doctors who conducted post-mortem on the victim’s body said the deep wounds indicate that she was murdered by someone with a lot of aggression. The woman was stabbed several times near her heart, leading to her death due to bleeding, he said. There were wounds in her back also. Blood was found in the front as well as the windows of her car.
In December last year, an engineering student was taken away at gunpoint from the Sector-20 market and was allegedly raped. She was then abandoned near Majri Chowk.