A 33-year-old auto-rickshaw driver allegedly strangled his wife to death at his home in south Delhi and then surrendered. Police said that the incident occurred on the intervening night of Sunday-Monday after the man was enraged over his five-month pregnant wife talking to another man on the street.
The accused, identified as Vijay Kumar, a resident of Dakshinpuri area, went to Ambedkar Nagar police station at 12:30 am on Sunday and confessed he had killed his wife earlier that night.
According to Atul Kumar Thakur, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), south district, after returning home Saturday night Kumar did not find his wife at home in Dakshinpuri and went to his in-laws residence nearby to look for her, but did not find her there as well. "Later, he saw her talking to a person on the street and got angry. The accused had an argument with his wife, which turned into a scuffle and then a murder.The woman's body was found on a bed. There was a strangulation mark on her neck," said the DCP. "The body has been preserved at AIIMS mortuary and a murder case has been registered against Kumar," said the DCP.