A 24-year-old delivery executive has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife at their rented accommodation in southwest Delhi’s Munirka after he confessed to a friend and sought help in disposing of the body, police said on Monday.
The accused, identified as Anurag alias Abhishek, was apprehended on Sunday outside the house of the friend, who alerted police by dialling the emergency helpline, they said.
The accused, identified as Anurag alias Abhishek, was apprehended on Sunday outside the house of the friend, who alerted police by dialling the emergency helpline, they said. “A police team reached Pal Dairy in Munirka, where the caller identified the accused, who was standing outside his house. On reaching there, the accused allegedly took him to his room, where he found Anurag’s wife, Kanika, lying on a bed in a pool of blood with multiple injuries. After the two reached outside the complainant’s house, he sought his phone back on the pretext of calling family members to open the gate.
A PCR call was received at Kishangarh police station on August 2 reporting that a man had killed his wife and was asking another person to help dispose of the body, according to the police. During questioning, the complainant told police that Anurag had called him late on the night of August 1 and asked him to come near his residence urgently. Once he regained possession of the phone, he immediately dialled 112 and informed police, leading to the accused’s arrest.
The accused was immediately taken into custody,” a senior police officer said. The complainant told police that the accused had taken away his mobile phone.
