India, June 5 -- A 49-year-old assistant professor of a college under Delhi University was found murdered in her apartment in east Delhi's Vasundhara Enclave on Thursday afternoon, police said.

The victim, identified as Devosmita Paul, an assistant professor at Shivaji College, was living alone in the flat in Vasundhara Enclave, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Rajeev Kumar said in an official statement.

Police said they received a PCR call at around 2.35 pm from a woman who reported that her sister had been murdered and was lying inside the flat.

A police team rushed to the spot, where the caller, identified as Devarati Paul, informed officers that her sister had not been responding to repeated phone calls since morning.

She said...