Panchkula, Aug. 6 -- A local court on Wednesday remanded domestic help Sunita, her husband Shankar, and their son Raja to one-day police custody for their alleged involvement in the murder of 72-year-old Neera Mehta.

According to the police, Mehta, wife of retired Army Captain Manmohan Lal Mehta, was strangled to death in Panchkula's Sector 21 on Monday evening.

An official privy to the matter said, during the remand period, the police will question the trio regarding the alleged theft of jewellery belonging to the deceased. The police will also take them to the house where the murder took place to recreate the sequence of events.

An official in the know said that during questioning, the 50-year-old Sunita allegedly told police that th...