The wife of Dinesh, resident of Chakshah, whose body was found outside his residence on Friday morning, was arrested along with her 20-year old boyfriend, Mohammad Aslam, native of Bihar, currently living in Moti Rispana Nagar, Dehradun, by police on Saturday on the charge of murder.
Dinesh who sold meat in the locality was murdered when he was sleeping with a sharp-edged weapon on Thursday night, police said. Police further said they had done away with Dinesh as they had been having illicit relationship for the past one-and-a-half years. After murdering Dinesh, the accused duo had enjoyed sex in celebration, police said.
In course of interrogation, deceased’s wife Reena is learnt to have confessed that she along with her boyfriend, Aslam had hatched a plan to kill her husband as they wished to marry, their intimate relation running into one-and-a-half years. However, Aslam said that both Dinesh and Reena quarrelling daily, Reena had wanted to marry him to get respite from the domestic trouble.
He further is learnt to have said that Reena had stopped him from going to Bihar to marry another girl. She had hatched the conspiracy to do in her husband with his assistance, Aslam said. As per the plan, both had attempted to murder Dinesh on January 13, but failed to do so. They succeeded on January 14 night when Dinesh was sleeping in his home, police said.
To divert police, Dinesh’s wife had informed them through a relative on Thursday night that her husband had gone missing since the evening. She was the person who had raised the alarm after finding her husband lying murdered near their residence on Fridaymorning. She later registered a complaint in the police station and a case under section 302 of IPC was registered against unidentified persons in the police station, Nehru Colony on Friday.
SSP Dr Sadanand Date said that he had formed a team led by sub- inspectors Vinod Gusain, Ashok Rahtor and Kamal Hasan, Yadvindar Singh Bajwa, Dilwar Singh Negi and Kavita Joshi to probe the murder.
Police kept Reena’s mobile phone on surveillance. Finally, police arrested Reena and later Mohammad Aslam. Aslam was trying to escape to Bihar when police arrested him on Saturday morning.
They were later grilled extensively and the plot emerged in course of it. Based on the information the duo gave, police recovered the murder weapon.