Major Nikhil Rai Handa, arrested for allegedly killing a fellow Army officer’s wife gave the glad eye to women and had befriended another woman, whom he had called after committing the crime, through dating site QuackQuack, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
The 40-year-old Army Major, who was arrested from Meerut on Sunday for allegedly killing lieutenant Colonel Amit Dwivedi’s wife Shailza Dwivedi (35), not only had several fake Facebook accounts, but also used to befriend women on dating sites through fake profiles.
He had befriended a woman, a resident of Patel Nagar, through dating site QuackQuack. In around a couple of years ago. The woman, who had come out of a bad marriage, had become a close confidante of Major Handa, the officer, who is privy to the probe, said.
The woman was aware that Major Handa was married and also knew about Dwivedi, though she had not met her. The woman was questioned by the police since she was the first person Major Handa had called after allegedly killing Dwivedi.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Vijay Kumar said the woman told them the accused expressed his anger after killing Dwivedi, whereas she did not say much, and also did not believe that he had killed someone.
Meanwhile, Handa is misleading the investigators even as he was taken to Meerut to ascertain the places he visited after the incident, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
Handa, who was arrested from Meerut on Sunday for allegedly killing 35-year-old Shailza Dwivedi, was misleading investigators and furnishing incorrect information”, the DCP said.
The officer said Handa had met his brother after the incident and they travelled from CR Park to Akshardham in the former’s car. His brother told the police that Handa had said he was involved in a road accident and did not mention to him about killing of the woman, the DCP added.
The police officer said they took Handa to a couple of places in Delhi and Meerut where he claimed to have dumped the weapon used to slit the woman’s neck, but it was yet to be found.
Police are also yet to recover a towel which Handa claimed he had burnt after using it to wipe the bloodstains of his car.
The victim's body was found with her throat slit near the Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment area on Saturday.
Initially, police were informed that a woman had died in an accident. But later, when they inspected the body, it was found that her throat was slit. The accused had allegedly run his car over her face and the body in order to make the incident appear as an accident.
Earlier, the woman was dropped at the Army Base Hospital in her husband's official vehicle by a driver on Saturday. later, when the driver came back to pick her up, he could not find her and learnt that she did not attend her scheduled physiotherapy session.