Ghaziabad man strangles lover, locks house & flees to Haridwar, held

Ghaziabad: A 38-year-old man was arrested Saturday for allegedly strangling his lover, a resident of east Delhi's Harsh Vihar, after a quarrel at his house in Tronica City's Elaichipur. Cops had found the woman's partially decomposed body on Thursday, two days after she was murdered.

Police said Imran was seeing the woman, Krishna Devi (40), for some time and wanted her to move in with him. On Tuesday, he had allegedly called the woman to his rented accommodation and insisted that she started living with him. Krishna, already married with three children, had refused to leave her family. She was upset when Imran asked her to bring her 14-year-old daughter along too.

It was allegedly in a fit of anger that Imran strangled her with a scarf. The next morning, he wrapped Krishana's body in a blanket to ensure it decomposed faster due to heat, locked his room and fled to Haridwar. Two days later, on April 24, a neighbour alerted cops on the DIAL 112 helpline after a foul smell started coming from the one-room house.

When Krishan did not return home, her son Bhupendra Singh filed a missing complaint with Tronica City police. In his complaint, Singh accused Imran of trying to mislead his mother.

DCP (rural) Surendra Nath Tiwari said Imran told interrogators that he had come to NCR from Muzaffarnagar after a divorce from his wife about 7 years ago. In Delhi, he would deliver midday meals, cooked by Krishna, to schools. The two allegedly fell in love but were fired after others came to know about their relationship.

Imran later found job as a paint-putty worker and took the room in Elaichipur on rent. He would introduce Krishna as his wife, the DCP said. According to cops, Imran was a drug addict too. He has been arrested on murder charges under BNS Section 103. Cops are trying to recreate the chain of events after the murder, how Imran travelled to Haridwar and where he hid for the last 3-4 days.