New Delhi, June 7 -- A couple from Kolkata in West Bengal was arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old assistant professor of a Delhi University college, whose body was found at a high-rise society in east Delhi's Vasundhara Enclave on Thursday.

Joint commissioner of police (eastern range) Ajit Kumar Singla said that the motive behind the murder was a property dispute.

The woman, who was appointed a permanent assistant professor at her current college in Raja Garden in 2023, had a severe head injury, both her wrists were slit, and she had bruises on her face and body, suggesting that a scuffle had taken place, according to investigators familiar with the probe details.

The arrested couple are distant relatives ...