Delhi Police have arrested a man for strangling his 20-year-old pregnant wife in outer Delhi’s Narela area as he suspected her of having an illicit relationship.
The accused has been identified as Dilshad. Police said that the accused was working at a gas stove manufacturing factory in Narela. According to a senior police official, the incident took place on early Tuesday morning.
“The couple engaged in a fight during which he allegedly strangled her to death. After killing her, he just lay next to her body. One of the relatives who visited them on Tuesday morning got to know about the murder and soon informed police about the incident,” said the senior police official.
“A case was registered and the accused husband was taken into police custody after he confessed to killing his wife over suspicion of her having an affair,” he said.
Police said the couple were married for around nine months and lived at a rented house in Narela here. The woman was apparently two-months pregnant as alleged by locals and family members but police are verifying claims and awaiting the post-mortem report to ascertain the facts.
They often fought as Dilshad suspected her of being in an illicit relationship with another man, police said.