Delhi Cantt murder: Is Major Handa leading cops on wild goose chase?
NEW DELHI: After killing the fellow Army officer’s wife, Army major Nikhil Handa continued to mislead the investigators even as he was taken to different areas to ascertain the places he visited after the incident.
Police claimed that the accused had also planned to flee to Agra after the crime but due to the familiarity of topography, he chose Meerut for the hideout.
Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), said the 40-year-old Major Nikhil Handa, who was arrested from Meerut on Sunday for alleg- edly killing another officer wife, was misleading the investigators by furnishing incorrect information.
Police claimed that the accused had met his brother after the incident and they travelled from CR Park to Akshardham in the former’s car.
His brother told the police that Handa had said he was involved in a road accident and did not mention to him about the killing of the woman.
The police officer said they took Handa to a couple of places in Delhi and Meerut where he claimed to have dumped the weapon used to slit the woman’s neck, but it was yet to be found.
Police are also yet to recover a towel which Handa claimed he had burnt after using it to wipe the bloodstains of his car.
He had befriended another woman who was questioned by the police since she was the first person Major Handa had called after allegedly killing Shailza Dwivedi.
Kumar said the woman told them the accused expressed his anger after killing Dwivedi, whereas she did not say much, and also did not believe that he had killed someone.
The victim’s body was found with her throat slit near the Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment area on Saturday. Initially, the police were informed that a woman had died in an accident but later, when they inspected the body, it was found that her throat was slit.
The accused had allegedly run his car over her face and the body in order to make the incident appear as an accident.