Dehradun: Rajesh Ghulati, a 37-year-old software engineer, moved from America to Dehradun with his wife, Anupama, and four-year-old twin girls a little over a year ago.
When her family was unable to contact her for two months, her brother travelled to Dehradun to investigate. Anupama's family had been getting text messages from her cellphone, but it had proved impossible to speak to her.
After her brother filed a missing person complaint, Rajesh confessed to killing Anupama. On October 17, he says the couple had a fight. "She got hurt during the fight and fell unconscious. I also got very scared that already there is a case of domestic violence so what will happen tomorrow." He had beaten her in the past too after which Anupama had registered a case of domestic violence.
Ghulati makes this statement on camera from his prison cell.
The police are working on this theory: After Rajesh hit Anupama's head so hard against the wall that she fainted, he held a pillow over her face till she died. The couple's daughters were home, possibly asleep. Rajesh then allegedly cut Anupama's body into 70 pieces and stored them in a deep freezer. Slowly, he started getting rid of the pieces by scattering them one by one on the Mussoorie-Dehradun road.
"There are body parts in deep freeze which we have to have forensically prove through DNA that it belongs to Mr. Gulati's wife... we are on the job," says MA Ganpathy, a senior police officer handling the investigation.
Rajesh's daughters are now being looked after by their mother's brother.
When her family was unable to contact her for two months, her brother travelled to Dehradun to investigate. Anupama's family had been getting text messages from her cellphone, but it had proved impossible to speak to her.
After her brother filed a missing person complaint, Rajesh confessed to killing Anupama. On October 17, he says the couple had a fight. "She got hurt during the fight and fell unconscious. I also got very scared that already there is a case of domestic violence so what will happen tomorrow." He had beaten her in the past too after which Anupama had registered a case of domestic violence.
The police are working on this theory: After Rajesh hit Anupama's head so hard against the wall that she fainted, he held a pillow over her face till she died. The couple's daughters were home, possibly asleep. Rajesh then allegedly cut Anupama's body into 70 pieces and stored them in a deep freezer. Slowly, he started getting rid of the pieces by scattering them one by one on the Mussoorie-Dehradun road.
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Rajesh's daughters are now being looked after by their mother's brother.
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