Arrested Army Major Was "Obsessed" With Officer's Wife, Killed Her: Cops

Meerut/Delhi: An Indian Army Major was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut today in connection with the murder of the wife of a fellow officer. The 30-year-old woman was found dead on Saturday with her throat slit on a street in the Delhi Cantonment area. Major Nikhil Handa, who is currently posted in Nagaland's Dimapur and arrested from Meerut, is being brought to Delhi for further investigation. According to the police, he was "obsessed" with the woman and wanted to marry her. 

Major Handa and Shailza Dwivedi, wife of Major Amit Dwivedi, met about three years ago in Nagaland, where both the officers were working together, the police said. Ms Dwivedi then moved to Delhi after her husband was transferred.

"He knew her since 2015... He was obsessed with her... He wanted to marry her," said senior police officer Vijay Kumar.

Ms Dwivedi had left home on Saturday morning for a physiotherapy session at the Army Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment, the police said.
 An official vehicle assigned to her husband had dropped her outside the hospital. When the driver went to pick her up, he was told that she had not turned up for the session on Saturday, the police said. Half-an-hour later, she was found dead.

The police said they had got a call from passers-by about a body on the road. It appeared that she had been run over by a car, but when the police examined the body, they found her throat was slit.

Preliminary investigations indicated that Ms Dwivedi was last seen getting into another car from outside the hospital, the police said.

Today, the police said Major Handa reached Delhi on Saturday to meet Ms Dwivedi and picked her up from Delhi Cantonment in his Honda City car. They said he ran her over to disguise the murder as an accident. "He called her on Saturday, slit throat with a knife and ran his car over body," Mr Kumar said.

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