a grandson of tripathi lives in gurgaon tripathi was from bihar there were injury marks all over the body the victim k d tripathi was brotherinlaw of cbi director vijay shankar he saw the main door open and rang the bell the cops said the house had been ransacked the retired engineer was alone in the house as his wife had left for the us last week its possible the victim tried to prevent them from ransacking the house after which he was taken to the servant quarters and murdered there said a police officer the body was first noticed by a gardener pawan working in the adjacent house around 6 pm the police said that they were verifying this the height of the boundary walls of the house had been brought down to 15 m after high court orders a few flower pots were found broken on the driveway sources said that tripathi had got himself registered with the local police station as a senior citizen living alone the incident seemed to have occurred between 4 pm and 6 pm while the police claim the assailants entry into the house was friendly this has led to fresh security concerns in the area preliminary investigations pointed to robbery as the motive his wife and vijay shankars wife are sisters new delhi when there was no response he went to the servant quarters and saw the body lying there tripathi seemed to have been badly beaten up before he was strangulated tripathis servant who is also from bihar had left for his home two weeks ago and had not returned yet tripathi retired as a senior engineer with khetri mines in jhunjhunu in rajasthan police sources said that the lock on the main entrance to the house was intact while the initial entry as the police described it into the sprawling singlestorey house seemed friendly there were signs that a scuffle took place between tripathi and the assailants his younger brother is a former dgp of bihar tripathis body was found in the servant quarters strangulated and hands tied to a chair they also said there seemed to be a scuffle in the living room after which tripathi was assaulted and dragged to the servant outhouse a 70yearold man was brutally murdered in his sainik farms home on wednesday evening of the two daughters one is settled in the us and the other in sweden the cops said that they had his address and that they would send a team to find him even though his involvement is not certain at this stage his son lives in the ukthe police said there was a function in the house last week after which the family members including tripathis grandchildren had left for the us