A 26-year-old man allegedly killed his wife, chopped up her body into seven pieces, wrapped it meticulously and dumped it on an empty plot in south-east Delhi’s Sarita Vihar area on June 21.
He and his two elder brothers were detained on Monday night and arrested on Tuesday; the brothers for allegedly helping him remove evidence.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (South East) Chinmoy Biswal said the accused are Sajid Ali Ansari, an engineering graduate, and his brothers Mohd. Ishteyaq Alam Ansari, 28, and Mohd Hasmat Ali Ansari, 46.
The police claimed to have traced the accused after they found the name of a company on the carton in which the body was found.
On June 21, the police received a call about a carton and a black coloured bag lying in a vacant plot. When it was opened, police found a woman’s dismembered body with her face disfigured.
“The first step was to identify her. Teams worked to trace the clothes she was wearing, calls of husband-wife clash from nearby police station were scanned and missing records were also checked but no leads were found,” said Mr. Biswal.
Meanwhile, when the carton was carefully checked, the police found a firm’s name on it. During the probe, the shipping firm was found to be based in Gurugram. The police said that the company’s records were scanned and the teams zeroed in on a consignment, which was delivered to an address in Aligarh from United Arabs Emirates.
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“The consignment was delivered to one Javed and surveillance was mounted on him. He was found and then questioned,” the DCP said.
He allegedly told the police that he used to work in Sharjah till December 2017 and when he moved back to India, he took services of the shipment company to deliver his belongings back home. “He said some cartons were taken away by his house help, some were used by them and some were brought by him to Delhi where he owns a flat in Shaheen Bagh,” Mr. Biswal said.
Mr. Javed allegedly revealed that the house had been vacant till March 2017 after which he put it up for rent and was it taken by one Sajid Ali Ansari. “After the house was rented, Javed and his mother took the cartons from Aligarh to Delhi to bring back some belongings but left one carton at the house,” the officer said.
The police found out that Sajid was living on rent in that house with his wife and two children till he vacated it on June 22, a day after the body was found.
“This became our first lead. After local enquiry was made, it was found out that Sajid’s brother Hasmat also lives in Shaheen Bagh. Sajid was apprehended on Monday night from Hasmat’s house,” Mr. Biswal said.
During interrogation, he allegedly confessed to the crime and told the police that he got married to the woman he loved since 2010, in 2014. She was a Hindu woman and her parents were against the marriage but the two decided to continue after which the woman changed her name to Juhi.
Her parents then cut all ties with her.
He allegedly told the police that before marriage, she belonged to a family who were financially sound. Though he completed his engineering in 2015, he could not find a job and was managing with odd jobs, which his brother Hasmat would help him with.
“The couple used to fight over his financial condition and not being able to provide the family. He said he also grew close to a woman in Bihar. Because of the two reasons, he decided to eliminate her,” Mr. Biswal said.
On the night of June 20, allegedly after an argument, the husband strangulated wife Juhi to death after which he called his brother Ishteyaq for help.
The two allegedly chopped the body into pieces wrapped it in cloth, put it in a carton.
Then they called the elder brother Hasmat, who helped them dump the body in Sarita Vihar.
