Man chops wife’s body, dumps pieces in septic tank, surrenders
NEW DELHI: Suspecting his wife of having an extramarital affair, a man stabbed her to death on Saturday night and hacked her body into several pieces to dispose of them in the septic tank and a drain near his house in outer Delhi’s Prem Nagar, the police said.
When the murdered woman’s family arrived at the murder spot on Sunday morning on receiving a “confession” from her husband, he surrendered at the local police station and led them to the severed body parts. While SD Mishra, DCP (Rohini), quoted the suspect, Ashu , 33, as saying that he killed his wife, Seema, on suspicion of an extramarital affair, the woman’s family alleged that he would harass her for dowry and for giving birth to three daughters and no son.
The police said they had not received any complaint from the woman or her family in the past.
While Ashu repaired computers for a living, Seema was a homemaker. The couple owned a house in Prem Nagar, but had been renting a house in the same neighbourhood. “The couple would quarrel frequently. On Saturday night, he took her to their own house where they quarrelled once again. Ashu then used a knife to stab her in the neck before severing her body into multiple pieces around 10pm on Saturday,” DCP Mishra said.
Ashu had separated the torso, the limbs and the head—chopping them into at least six pieces. “He dumped the limbs and the head into a septic tank at his house before placing a bed at that spot. He then stuffed the torso in a bag, loaded it on a motorcycle and rode for over 2km to dump it in a drain,” the investigator said.