The police added that Major Handa not only had several Facebook accounts but also used to befriend women on dating sites through fake profiles.
Police will be taking the arrested accused, Major Nikhil Handa, to Meerut to recreate the sequence of events and to ascertain where he could have thrown the knife he used to slit the woman's throat.
Metropolitan Magistrate Manisha Tripathy granted custody of Major Nikhil Handa to the police after it said he has to be taken to Meerut in Uttar Pradesh to make certain recoveries including his clothes and weapon used to commit the crime.
Shelja's body, lying on a secluded Delhi Cantonment road, was found by strangers at 1 pm on Saturday and within 24 hours Delhi Police arrested the key suspect from Meerut. Here's a look at the timeline of the Delhi Cantt murder case:
The police made the arrest as Major Handa, a friend of the victim, was spotted with her hours before she went missing from the Army Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment area.
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