Man Strangles Delhi Woman, Dumps Body In Canal After Tying Rock To It

A case of murder came to light in Delhi's Chhawla area where a man killed a woman and then tied her body to a stone before dumping it in a drain. Two men were arrested for murdering the woman identified as Komal.

Komal, was a resident of Seemapuri's Sundari Nagar who worked at a call centre, was allegedly murdered on March 12. On the day, one of the accused Asif, who is a taxi driver and lives near the woman's residence, made her sit in his vehicle. Instead of dropping her home, he drove around different parts of Delhi.

Komal's family claimed that Asif was pressuring her to befriend and marry him. As Asif drove around the city, the other accused Zubair also sat in the car. When the conversation between the woman and the accused got heated, she was strangled to death. They then dumped the body in a drain in Chhawla and fled the spot.

On March 16, Komal's body was found when it rose to the water's surface after swelling up. Komal's parents were summoned to Rao Tula Ram Hospital in Jafarpur on Wednesday for identifying her body.

Komal's family said that she went missing on March 12, after which they went to the Nand Nagri police station to register a complaint. They were then sent to the Preet Vihar police station, where they were told to lodge a complaint in Seemapuri as that was her last known location. 

After the body was found, a murder case was registered by the Chhawla police.

The case comes a day after news emerged of a Merchant Navy officer from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut being murdered, chopped up and his body being put into a drum and sealed with cement. Behind the chilling crime was the man's wife and her lover Sahil Shukla.