Delhi: Day after the decomposed body of a woman was found stuffed inside a bed box in a house in east Delhi, police arrested its landlord while the husband is still absconding, police said on Sunday.
Vivekanand Mishra, the landlord, was arrested on Saturday. According to reports, Mishra confessed to the crime and revealed that two other persons – Abhay Kumar, the husband’s aide, and the husband himself—were allegedly involved in the crime. The husband’s aide was also held.
The police is yet to unearth the motive behind the crime. On Friday, police had received complaints of a foul smell from one of the DDA flats in Vivek Vihar. They found the house locked from the outside but noticed blood stains near the back door, reports claimed.
As the police broke into the flat, they found the body wrapped in a blanket and placed inside the bed box. The 65-year-old house owner was tracked down near Surajmal Park in Anand Vihar and detained.
The 35-year-old victim was identified as Anjali. She had reportedly caught her husband, Asish, in a compromising situation with two other people in their flat.
Following this incident, she left the house for her parents’ place in Punjab’s Ludhiana. But her husband, Ashish, convinced her to return to the Delhi flat on March 21. According to reports, the husband along with his friend and their landlord, allegedly killed her, two days later. The trio then escaped to Jaipur. They stayed at Ashish’s cousin’s house. While the other two came back to Delhi, a Ashish and his friend Abhay fled to Bihar.
In the recent days, several instances of the spouse killing his or her partner has surfaced. Earlier in Bengaluru, a techie from Pune killed his wife and stuffed her body in a suitcase. The techie had then called her in-laws and confessed to the crime. The Muskan Rashtogi case from Meerut, in which she killed her husband Saurabh Rajput with the help of her lover Sahil Shukla and dumped his body in a cement drum, had sent shockwaves across the country.
