Naval officer’s wife found dead

NEWDELHI: The body of a naval officer’s wife was found in their house in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj, Delhi Police officials said on Wednesday. A team was rushed to the couple’s residence where they found the body of the 29-year-old woman on a bed. Her husband is a naval officer.

A magisterial probe has been ordered into the death, said a senior police officer.

“Ligature marks were found on the woman’s neck. Her husband said she hanged herself with a bedsheet and the door of the room was locked from inside. He husband said he broke open the door and brought down his wife. He called a doctor who declared her dead,” a police official said.

He said the couple got married in 2016.