New Delhi, March 21 (IANS): A woman relative of a private bank employee was battered to death with a blunt object and his two-year-old son injured by some unidentified assailants at a house here, police said Friday. The house was also robbed.

The incident came to light around 8 p.m. Thursday when Arvinder Singh, 32, returned to his Uttam Nagar house in west Delhi with his wife Amarpreet Kaur, 27.

The deceased, identified as Inderjeet Kaur, 45, was a distant relative and used to come to his house to take care of his son when the couple were away.

Arvinder works in a private bank in Gurgaon, Haryana. Amarpreet also works in a private company in the Connaught Place area of New Delhi.

Police said the couple had gone to office after which the incident took place.

"The entire house was ransacked and Inderjeet was found in a pool of blood in the bedroom while the bank employee's son was lying unconscious nearby," said a police officer.

"The couple rushed both the victims to a hospital where Inderjeet was pronounced brought dead while the child is being treated and stated to be out of danger," said the officer.

An initial probe has revealed the assailants had a friendly entry into the house in the afternoon but they had a fight with the deceased after which they killed her and then robbed the house. However, the amount of valuables taken has still not been ascertained.