New Delhi: An Army Major, “obsessed” with his friend’s wife, was on Sunday captured for killing her by cutting her throat and running his vehicle over her to confuse his misdeed as an accident.
Delhi Police captured Nikhil Rai Handa from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh – in excess of 100 km from Delhi – and recuperated a brand new Honda City car by which he murdered on Saturday.
Handa told agents that he had a fight with Shailja, 35, spouse of another Major Amit Dwivedi, in his auto and sliced her throat with a “Swiss blade” before driving her out and about.
“To make it appear like an accident, Handa at that point kept running over his vehicle on Shailja. Handa had a fixation on Shailja and was pressurizing her to wed him,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Vijay Kumar said in a media instructions.
Handa uncovered amid cross examination that he knew Shailja since 2015 and in 2017, he and the casualty’s significant other were posted together in Dimapur in Nagaland.
“While Amit was there with his family, Handa lived alone,” he said.
As Shailja came to Delhi two months back and began dwelling in Army quarters in Naraina close to the Cantonment with her better half who was alloted to leave for a delegation to Sudan for a United Nation’s main goal in two or three weeks, Handa likewise came here on June 2.
At the point when Handa came to realize that Shailja was experiencing physiotherapy at the Base Hospital in the Cantonment zone, he additionally began taking headache treatment in a similar doctor’s facility to keep up vicinity with the casualty, said the authority, including he likewise got his youngster admitted to that healing facility.
Shailja, who hailed from Amritsar, had been going to the healing center throughout the previous four days for treatment of her lower leg.
Around 10 a.m. on Saturday, Shailja left home in an Army vehicle for the physiotherapy session yet she ran with Handa in his auto from outside the healing facility as their picture was caught in a CCTV camera introduced there, the authority said. At the point when the driver went to lift her up later, he was educated that she had not gone to the session.
Later toward the evening, her body was spotted by a bystander close Brar Square.
“Despite the fact that they shared a great bond of friendship, Shailja was not in a circumstance to get hitched to Handa. They had a squabble in the auto over the issue after which he executed her,” the authority said.
The authority said “it appears that Handa opening Shailja’s throat abruptly as there was no opposition stamp in the auto however her garments were torn which implies that she made fizzled endeavors to spare herself when she was kept running over.
“Handa’s auto has enough proof against him. There are blood recolors on the tires. There were various blades in the auto including a Swiss blade which was utilized as a part of the murder.”
Specialists said they started to speculate Handa as there were an immense number of calls traded between them – the greatest of them made by the Major.
“Casualty’s significant other had once gotten the two on a video call. He educated us that he didn’t need Handa to ever be seen around his significant other or family.”
Upon the arrival of the murder, Handa had called Shailja at a young hour toward the beginning of the day, requesting that her meet him.
After the murder, Handa returned to his transitory living arrangement in South Delhi’s Saket territory, he went to the Base doctor’s facility to ask what was happening and proceeded onward numerous areas in Delhi before escaping to Meerut.
“Handa kept his telephone turned off, didn’t keep up any contact with anybody, not in any case his relatives. Despite the fact that he kept his telephone off, he utilized the calling highlight on WhatsApp in the middle of which helped us to track his area,” the authority said.
