LUCKNOW, May 26 -- In an incident that shook the state capital, the wife of a retired IAS officer was found murdered after an alleged robbery at the couple's residence in Indira Nagar's Sector 20 on Saturday morning, police said.

Mohini Dubey (58) was the wife of Devendra Nath Dubey (75), who retired as a divisional commissioner in 2009. She was strangled to death, police said, adding her body was discovered in a ransacked room on the first floor of the house. The incident took place in a crowded neighbourhood.

Ghazipur police in the city said the retired bureaucrat went out to play golf around 7.15 am and found his wife's body when he returned around 9.45 am. Stating that Mohini was alone at home when she was murdered, they suspected t...