The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly strangling his 26-year-old wife and chopping up her body, reported The Times of India. Two of his brothers were also arrested for helping him dispose the woman’s body.
The police have said the three men – Sajid Ali Ansari, Hasmat Ali Ansari and Mohammad Ishtiaq – are all natives of Chhapra in Bihar. Ansari allegedly killed Juhi after a fight on June 20. Her body was found chopped into seven pieces and stuffed in a cardboard box on a vacant plot in Jasola Vihar the next day.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (South East) Chinmoy Biswal said a police team found a bag and the carton at the spot. They also found a few grains of rice on her body, according to the Hindustan Times.
“We traced several rice traders from the vicinity as her body was wrapped in a rice sack,” Biswal said, adding that officers found a sticker on the carton with the name of a shipping company and a code.
Biswal said the shipping company’s executives told the police that the code on the carton was that of a delivery order. “It was found that the company had transported the household stuff of Javed Akhtar from Sharjah in UAE to Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh.” When police contacted Akhtar, he said he had taken a few cartons to his house in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, which he had rented out to Sajid Ali Ansari.
When a police team went to the house in Shaheen Bagh, they found that Ansari had vacated the house and left the keys with a neighbour. They found the woman’s bloodstained clothes inside the house, reported The Times of India.
Police then searched the house of Ansari’s brother, Hasmat, who lives in the same locality and arrested Sajid on Tuesday morning, Biswal said.
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