Nine months after a 75-year-old woman was found dead in her house in Thane district, the police have registered a case of murder and destruction of evidence against her landlord, the latter’s wife and son, a police officer said on Sunday.

The deceased, Waheedabi Noormohammad Shaikh, was a widow and lived alone in Kalyan since 1990. Her landlord had been forcing her to vacate the house as he wanted to develop the property. The woman, however, had refused to vacate, the officer from Bazarpeth police station said quoting a complaint filed by a relative.