A 45-year-old man was arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly choking a 37-year-old woman to death at her residence after she refused to enter into a relationship with him at her house in East Delhi’s New Ashok Nagar area, police said on Tuesday.
Omvir Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) said, the accused has been identified as Qayum. He is a native of Bihar and came to Delhi 18 years ago where he started working as a rickshaw puller. The accused was presently working as a mason and is married and has six children.
On March 24, we received a PCR call regarding the body of a woman in her room. Following which, a team from New Ashok Nagar police station went to the spot and found body of a 37-year-old woman with injury marks on her neck. Her body was shifted to the mortuary of the lal Bahadur Shastri hospital where in the post-mortem examination report, police found that the woman was choked to death and subsequently a case under section 302 was registered.
During the course of investigation, police questioned the neighbours of the victim and found that after she separated from her husband and children, she started living in the area.
The accused was a frequent visitor to her house and on the day of her murder, Qayum was last seen by the neighbours leaving her room.
Technical surveillance was mounted on the suspect and his location was zeroed in at Noida Sector 8 in Uttar Pradesh and Qayum was arrested.
During sustained interrogation, the accused disclosed that he was having an illicit relationship with the victim. On the day of the murder, Qayum asked her to have initimate relationship but the victim declined. In a state of anger, the accused strangled the woman with her duppatta.
Police said that they have recovered the mobile phone of the victim apart from the duppatta which was used to choke the woman to death.