Mohali, Jan. 3 -- Days after former Punjab additional advocate general (AAG) Krishan Kumar Goel's wife Ashok Kumari Goel was found murdered at her residence in Phase-5, Mohali, police have arrested the family's caretaker.

The accused, Neeraj, 25, had been working with the family for the last eight years and was fully aware of their routines and movements, police said. The arrest came on the evening of January 1 after Neeraj confessed to have plotted the whole crime.

The crime had taken place on the intervening night of December 29 and 30. Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras showed two men entering the house around 11.30 pm. The ease with which they entered led police to believe it was an inside job. Thus they started questioning th...