Raj Shekhar, TNN | Mar 21, 2012, 05.31AM IST
NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old businessman has been arrested for allegedly murdering his former wife. Deepak Gupta, a scrap dealer in northwest Delhi, allegedly took his former wife Manjari Gupta (30) to Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh and strangled her to death. He disfigured her face with a stone and dumped her body in a sugarcane field near a highway.
Police have also arrested Gupta's associate, Sunil Kumar (38), who reportedly helped him commit the murder. Cops said it was a wellplanned murder, motivated by a sense of vengeance, as Gupta could not live with the fact that she had started life afresh and had got close to his cousinafter divorce while he was living alone and bringing up their children.
"We had received information about the two accused having committed the murder. We began investigations and used local intelligence to gather clues about the suspects. We got a tip-off about their whereabouts in Ashok Nagar, east Delhi, and laid a trap. They were apprehended and during interrogation, they told us about their involvement in the murder. We have recovered the mobile phone and the SIM card used in the crime," said Ashok Chand, DCP, crime.
Police said the couple's marital life was initially peaceful but they had begun to quarrel frequently after twothree years of the marriage. Gupta began to doubt his wife's integrity and began to physically and mentally abuse her frequently. It went on for years and finally they got divorced in May 2011. After the divorce, police said, Manjari began to live with her parents in Shahdara while Gupta continued to live in Ashok Nagar . He got the custody of their two sons, now 11 and seven years old, and continued to operate his business from Rohini but could not accept the fact that she was now close to his own cousin who had stood by Manjari when Gupta used to abuse her.
A senior police officer said that in November 2011, Gupta confided in Kumar who instigated his vengeance and they hatched a plan to eliminate her. On November 29, on their anniversary day, he called Manjari to Japnese Park in Rohini and took her to Baghpat on his brother's car on pretext of visiting the temple they used to visit frequently. "Sunil posed as the driver. On their way back, he stopped the car on the side of the highway and Gupta used his belt to strangle her while Sunil held her from behind. After killing her, Gupta smashed her face with a stone and dumped the body in a sugarcane field," said Joy Tirkey, additional DCP, crime branch.
Gupta then returned to Delhi and began to live a normal life. A missing complaint was lodged by Manjari's family and cops initially treated it as a regular missing person case. The brutal incident came to light when her family got to know about Manjari's whereabouts on the fateful day. Crime branch ACP M C Katoch got a tip-off about the suspicious nature of Manjari's disappearance and began investigations.
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Police have also arrested Gupta's associate, Sunil Kumar (38), who reportedly helped him commit the murder. Cops said it was a wellplanned murder, motivated by a sense of vengeance, as Gupta could not live with the fact that she had started life afresh and had got close to his cousinafter divorce while he was living alone and bringing up their children.
"We had received information about the two accused having committed the murder. We began investigations and used local intelligence to gather clues about the suspects. We got a tip-off about their whereabouts in Ashok Nagar, east Delhi, and laid a trap. They were apprehended and during interrogation, they told us about their involvement in the murder. We have recovered the mobile phone and the SIM card used in the crime," said Ashok Chand, DCP, crime.
Police said the couple's marital life was initially peaceful but they had begun to quarrel frequently after twothree years of the marriage. Gupta began to doubt his wife's integrity and began to physically and mentally abuse her frequently. It went on for years and finally they got divorced in May 2011. After the divorce, police said, Manjari began to live with her parents in Shahdara while Gupta continued to live in Ashok Nagar . He got the custody of their two sons, now 11 and seven years old, and continued to operate his business from Rohini but could not accept the fact that she was now close to his own cousin who had stood by Manjari when Gupta used to abuse her.
A senior police officer said that in November 2011, Gupta confided in Kumar who instigated his vengeance and they hatched a plan to eliminate her. On November 29, on their anniversary day, he called Manjari to Japnese Park in Rohini and took her to Baghpat on his brother's car on pretext of visiting the temple they used to visit frequently. "Sunil posed as the driver. On their way back, he stopped the car on the side of the highway and Gupta used his belt to strangle her while Sunil held her from behind. After killing her, Gupta smashed her face with a stone and dumped the body in a sugarcane field," said Joy Tirkey, additional DCP, crime branch.
Gupta then returned to Delhi and began to live a normal life. A missing complaint was lodged by Manjari's family and cops initially treated it as a regular missing person case. The brutal incident came to light when her family got to know about Manjari's whereabouts on the fateful day. Crime branch ACP M C Katoch got a tip-off about the suspicious nature of Manjari's disappearance and began investigations.
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