A 22-year-old woman was strangled to death allegedly by her husband with a clutch wire in north Delhi.
The couple used to fight often and the wife, Komal, was staying at her parents’ place in Raghubir Nagar.
On Friday, the accused, Manoj, went to his in-laws’ house to meet Komal and asked her to come with him as he had planned a surprise for her.
Manoj took Komal to Bonta Park where he asked her to close her eyes and then strangled her with a clutch wire he had bought from the market before meeting her, the police said.
He left his dead wife in Bonta Park and called one of his friends and reportedly told him about the incident. His friend, however, alerted the police who arrested him around midnight. They took him to the park to locate Komal’s body, but he was too drunk to identify the spot where he had killed her, they added.
It took two police teams almost 12 hours to locate Komal’s body. “As Manoj was drunk, he was unable to identify the exact spot where he dumped Komal’s body, but we eventually traced her body yesterday,” said Jatin Narwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police North.
Komal and Manoj met at a Gurgaon bar where she worked. He ran a general store in Kanjhawala. They got married in July 2015, but six months into their marriage, the couple developed differences and fought over trivial issues. Their frequent fights frustrated Komal, who decided to move back to her parents’ home in west Delhi’s Raghubir Nagar. However, Manoj didn’t like it.
Besides their differences, Manoj also suspected Komal of having an extra-marital affair and objected to her talking to other men, the police said. He tried to persuade her to return, but when she didn’t, he allegedly planned to kill her.
Manoj had reportedly planned to leave the city after killing his wife. A case of murder has been registered against him. Komal’s body has been sent for autopsy.
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