Ashok Goyal (65), wife of former Punjab additional advocate general, Krishan Goyal, was strangled to death by robbers at their Phase-5 house in Mohali on Monday night.
All the rooms of the house were ransacked and cash and valuables stolen, police said.
A house help noticed the body as she entered the house for work. Another domestic help was found tied to a chair.
Sources said no other family member was present at the house when the robbers struck.
Senior police officials reached the spot and began an investigation. A forensic team has collected samples from the house
Goyal, an advocate of the debt recovery tribunal, has an office on the first floor of the building. He is currently in Muscat in Oman to visit his daughter, sources said.