The arrested accused chopped his wife's body parts and dropped it across Alwar city.
A murder most macabre that had terrified the residents of Rajasthan's Alwar all of last week, has finally been solved. Since Diwali last week, dismembered parts of a woman's body - burnt and put into plastic bags - were being found in different residential colonies in the city.
Over four days, the police came across seven such body parts, they all had one thing in common - they had been dismembered, burnt and stuffed into bags.
It all began on October 30, when in Alwar's Arya Nagar - an upper middle class neighbourhood - a bag was discovered with a woman's right foot in it. The next day, two hands in two different bags were discovered.
In the seventh and the last bag, found on Wednesday, was the woman's head.
Suspecting that the murderer probably lived in one of the neighbourhoods where the bags were being found, the police began a door-to-door search of these residential areas, most of them working class neighbourhoods.
In was in a working class neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon that 35-year-old Yogesh Malhotra became a suspect.
"We started a house-to-house survey, yesterday we came across a house where a woman had been missing since Diwali. Neighbours said there had been some kind of a fight and after that the woman Arti was not seen," said Alwar Superintendent of Police Rahul Prakash.
The police put Yogesh Malhotra under surveillance almost immediately.
Burn marks on his hands, and the fact that Yogesh left home even as the police team was searching his locality raised suspicions. Neighbours also said over the past few days he had been seen carrying bags out of his house.
Yogesh was finally arrested from Hissar, where he was hiding.
He admitted that he had cut up his wife's body, but claimed she had committed suicide and it wasn't a murder.
"I did not kill her she committed suicide, but I was scared that if something happened to me who would take care of my little daughter, so I disposed of her body by cutting it up," said Yogesh , who is right now in police custody.
He has no permanent job and police believe the motive for the murder is because he suspected his wife Arti of infidelity.