The Delhi police has arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly killing his wife. According to the police, the accused Ashwani killed his wife in southeast Delhi on October 20.
“On October 20, the police got a call of murder. A team reached the area and found that the house was locked from inside. The door was broken and the deceased was found lying on the floor in a pool of blood, her face covered with a blood-soaked sheet. There were cut marks on her cheek and her neck was slit with some sharp-edged weapon,” said a senior police official adding that there was no eyewitness to the incident.
The police lodged an FIR under Section 302 (murder) and started investigation.
The deceased was identified as Sheetal and her husband was missing after the murder which made him the prime suspect.
The police nabbed Ashwani from Satya Niketan area of south Delhi. According to the police the deceased Sheetal had love marriage with the accused. “Two years back they met at a park in Connaught Place. Their marriage was solemnised at Kali Bari Mandir in Gole Market area,” the official added.
But after a year, the accused started beating Sheetal on petty issues. The accused in the meantime came in contact with a girl and married her too. He started living separately with Neha in Shakti Vihar area under an assumed name of Shiv Kumar.
“On the fateful day, the accused came to meet his wife and had an argument with her. At night, he asked Neha to leave the house with his son Gaurav, 2, and meet him near Meethapur Chowk. The accused strangulated the victim with a piece of nylon rope and thereafter slit her throat with a kitchen knife. After committing the crime, the accused locked the door and fled,” the official said. The police has recovered the weapons used in the commission of the crime.