The Delhi police on Wednesday said that they have arrested a 27-year-old man for the murder of his wife that took place in northwest Delhi’s Ashok Vihar area. The accused had murdered his wife in front of his three children.
DCP (northwest) Vijay Singh said the accused, Ashish Kumar, suspected that his wife had an extra marital affair with their paying guest an used to beat her over the issue. One of his kids also told the police that he had seen his father killing his mother.
The victim, identified as Jyoti, and Ashish married around seven years ago without the consent of their families and started living in a separate house. They had three children — two sons aged five and three years and a daughter aged one year.
According to the police, the incident was reported on September 11 when Jyoti’s body was found inside her house with her wrist slit. The three children were crying beside her body. The police registered a case of murder and started looking for the husband, who had fled by then.
On Tuesday, the police got a tip-off about Ash-ish’s hideout and arrested him from Jaitpur extension, near the Delhi-Faridabad border.
During the interrogation, he told the police that the couple had a paying guest who had not paid rent for several months. While Ashish insisted that he should be asked to vacate the house, his wife refused to do so, leading to suspicion over an illicit relation between the two, said an official.
On September 11, a heated argument broke out between the two, regarding the same issue, during which Ashish allegedly slit the wrist of his wife with a knife and fled, said the official. After the incident, Ashish took up the job of a truck cleaner and kept moving through cities in eastern and northern India. When a police team arrested him on Tuesday, he initially tried to mislead them about his identity, but later broke down, the police added.
