91-year-old woman ‘smothered’ at central Kolkata high-rise; former driver detained

A 91-year-old woman was found dead — with blood oozing from her nose — by her son in the bedroom at her ninth-floor apartment in the 11-storied Ganga Jamuna Apartments on Shakespeare Sarani on Tuesday morning. Renuka Chowdhury was declared dead when her son Abhay took her to SSKM Hospital. Preliminary post-mortem report said she had died due to smothering around midnight.