The accused husband, identified as Dharamveer, along with two others — Arun and Satyavan — who helped him in the murder have been arrested.
A man allegedly strangled his wife, whom he married after buying her for Rs 70,000, as he was unhappy with her “behaviour” and dumped her body in a forest area in southwest Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri.
The accused husband, identified as Dharamveer, along with two others — Arun and Satyavan — who helped him in the murder have been arrested, police said, PTI reported.
“On Saturday, a PCR call was received regarding a woman’s body being found in a forest near Jheel Khurd border in Fatehpur Beri. Police rushed to the spot and took possession of the body,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Chandan Chowdhary said.
Police launched an investigation into the case and through technical and manual surveillance, the movement of an autorickshaw at around 1.40 am on Saturday was found suspicious.
The route of the autorickshaw was tracked and its registration number identified. Its driver Arun, a resident of Chhatarpur, was apprehended near Gadaipur Band road, the DCP said, PTI reported.
Arun identified the deceased as Sweety, the wife of Dharamveer. He confessed that he and his brother-in-laws Dharamveer and Satyavan, both residents of Nangloi, killed Sweety by strangulation near Haryana border and threw the body in the forest, the police officer said.