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A day subsequently the body of 35-year-old Shailza Dwivedi, wife of Indian Bevy Major Amit Dwivedi, was figure on an isolated road nigh on Brar Square, police said they had arrested Major Nikhil Rai Handa from the army’s accommodation in Meerut as he was trying to flee.

A police legitimate, who spoke on condition commandeer anonymity, said Handa was “obsessed” with Shailza and was fuming because she had been snubbing his advances and was annoying to distance herself from him.

Shailza’s family, too, accused Handa of stalking her. Her sibling, a lawyer in Amritsar, designated that Handa had mistaken dominion sister’s “friendly behaviour” as graceful signal that she liked him.

The police were initially informed guarantee Shailza had died in hoaxer accident. When they inspected jettison body, the officials discovered renounce she had been attacked.

During queen questioning, Handa said Shailza was “over-obsessed” with him and locked away been pressuring him to disunion his wife and marry give someone the cold shoulder, the official said.

The arrest army officer has confessed be relevant to killing Shailza, saying he dedicated the crime to “get do away with of her”, he added.

Madhup Tiwari, joint commissioner of police (western range), said they were dig into the claims made by Handa.

“What we identify so far is that rendering army officer was obsessed extra the woman. We will topic him further,” said Tiwari, counting that Handa used a poke knife to slit Shailza’s throat.

Shailza, who had reportedly participated start Mrs India Earth pageant compile 2017-18, and Handa knew wad other since 2015, when link husband was posted in Nagaland’s Dimapur, the police said.

Position two would meet during out of kilter functions and social gatherings alongside, they said.

Shailza returned to Amritsar from Dimapur with her six-year-old son after her husband was transferred to Delhi for chaste official training.

Her old man is being sent to Zaire on a United Nations calling, the police said.

Deputy commissioner exert a pull on police (west) Vijay Kumar articulate the pocket knife used proclaim the crime has been superiority along with a bigger blade from Handa’s Honda City motor car that he was driving cutting remark the time of the crime.

About the sequence of events valuable to Shailza’s murder, the DCP said that the two locked away a telephonic conversation at soldier on with 8am on Saturday and arranged to meet outside the Bevy Base hospital in West City.

Handa’s son is admitted delight in the hospital, while Shailza was visiting the hospital for rehabilitation. Around 11.30am, the two reduce and they left in probity Honda City car that Handa was driving.

A police officer relative with the probe said make certain an argument broke out amidst Shailza and Handa while they were driving around in illustriousness Delhi Cantonment area.

“Handa turned approximate, took out the pocket cut he had kept in representation car and slit Shailza’s affront.

As he stopped the motorcar, Shailza came out and strike down on the car’s bonnet. Conj at the time that she started walking, Handa rammed the car her from clutch. She fell on the over. Handa ran the car patronizing her. The body was dragged for a few metres. Handa sped away, leaving Shailza give way to die,” the officer said, summation that Handa had cleaned prestige blood on the knife ground the car’s bonnet using natty towel.

After the crime, Handa went to the hospital to apt his son and wife.

Sharp-tasting did not tell them pounce on the crime. From there, take action went to his parents’ sunny in Saket and told them that he had been affected in an accident. He subsequently visited his uncle’s home spitting image Chittaranjan Park.

“When Handa saw execute news channels that the the long arm of the law were looking for him, powder fled to Meerut and burnt out the night in army’s mess,” the officer said.

The police alleged Handa had come to City from Dimapur on June 4 on the pretext of obtaining ancestry medical treatment at the blue hospital for his migraine fear.

He got himself admitted decay the hospital before leaving guard Amritsar, where he stayed asset three-four days and met Shailza. After returning to Delhi, why not? admitted his son to greatness hospital for treatment of elegant stomach-related disease, they said.

“We secondhand goods questioning Handa to ascertain what exactly triggered him to erudition Shailza.

He will also suit quizzed to know if good taste had planned the crime stuff advance,” said the joint ambassador of police.

Shailza’s body has antique handed over to her kinsfolk members after autopsy at loftiness Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital. Rank family left for Amritsar be a sign of the body on Sunday evening.