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.
Major Handa, who has been sent to four-day police custody by a Delhi court, wanted to marry the woman but she had spurned his proposal. Furious over the rejection, Major Handa, slit her throat in a car after an argument.
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.
The police sources said that the accused, an Army Major, was a friend of the deceased and was seen with her hours before the murder. The available clues have made the police look for a love-affair angle, they added.
The wife of an Indian Army major was found dead at New Delhi’s Brar Square area on Saturday.
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