Swiss Embassy yet to respond to police’s request for help in identifying murder victim

‘The police have been in touch with the embassy officials. The embassy officials were asked to identify the body. However, they have not received any response so far,’ DCP (West) Vichitra Veer said. | Photo Credit: File Photo

The Delhi police continue to wait for a response from the Switzerland Embassy regarding information about a murder victim, Nina Berger, believed to be a Swiss national, whose body was recovered from west Delhi on Friday.

“The police have been in touch with the embassy officials. The embassy officials were asked to identify the body. However, they have not received any response so far,” DCP (West) Vichitra Veer said.

“We are waiting for her family to identify the body so that the process of autopsy examination could be started,” he added.

Berger’s body, which was found wrapped in plastic sheets with her limbs tied with iron chains near a school in Tilak Nagar, is still preserved in a mortuary.

The police have arrested 33-year-old Gurpreet Singh for the murder. “The accused revealed during interrogation that he killed Berger after she turned down his marriage proposal,” a senior officer said.

Psychoanalysis tests

The police are conducting psychoanalysis tests on the accused as he has frequently changed his statements regarding the sequence of the crime.

“We have to ascertain the exact sequence of the events, starting from how he met the woman to why he killed her,” the officer said.

The police have conducted multiple tests, supervised by a team of doctors and counsellors, which are likely to continue on Thursday as well.

Sources said Mr. Singh, who has been in police custody for four days, was taken to multiple locations, including a shop from where he had bought chains and locks.

The accused has told the police that he had befriended Berger through a dating app around four years ago.

He said the Swiss national had come to Delhi from Switzerland on October 11.

However, on Thursday, they got into an argument, following which he strangled her to death.

Police sources said the body was kept inside a car. When a foul smell started emanating from the car, Mr. Singh dumped the body near a school run by the MCD.

A police officer said the suspect was arrested based on CCTV footage.