Dariko Sh., who is one of the six persons arrested in the case into the break-in into a house and murder of a 70-year-old Armenian woman in Ninotsminda, Georgia, is released on a bail of 5,000 laris (approx. US$2,016).

Karen Ayvazyan, a relative of the assault victims, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Dariko Sh. is accused of knowing about the crime to be committed and not informing about it.  

As reported earlier, the persons, who broke in into the house in Ninotsminda town in the predominantly-Armenian-populated Samtskhe-Javakheti Province of Georgia and killed the 70-year-old Armenian woman, were identified.

They are Temur B., Nodar A., Koba Sh., Ivane G., Ketevan Kh. and Dariko Sh., who are Georgians.

They were arrested, and the trial of the respective criminal case is underway.

Several masked men had entered the house in Ninotsminda on the night of January 13, beaten the two women who were at home at the time, and one of them had died on the spot.

The Ninotsminda residents had told Armenian News-NEWS.am that these masked men had asked the landlady to open the door of the house maintaining that their car had broken down and they were left stranded, and they had asked for their help. 

Entering the home, however, they had brutally beaten Sonik Sahakyan, 70, and her daughter-in-law Emma Sahakyan, 50.

The 70-year-old woman had died on the spot.