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By India Today Crime Desk: Police have arrested a 34-year-old man from Haryana’s Manesar district for killing his wife. According to police, the man first chopped the hands of the wife, then chopped her head and set the body on fire. A source in the police said the accused confessed to killing his wife, news agency PTI reported.
A half-burnt body of a woman was found in a village in Manesar on April 21, with police suspecting she was murdered somewhere else. The woman had her head missing and her hands chopped off.
The chilling details of the murder came to the fore when police on April 23 found the chopped hands of the woman. Her chopped head was found on April 26. Police found the chopped head of a woman from the Kherki Daula area.
Police in its investigation concluded that the torso belonged to a 30-year-old woman. However, the reason behind the murder is yet to be ascertained.
HALF-BURNT BODY FOUND
Gurugram Police Commissioner Kala Ramachandran said that the accused, Jitender, is being interrogated and more details will be shared on Friday. Jitender is a resident of Gandhi Nagar and was living on rent in Manesar area, a senior police official told PTI.
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Police found the body of the woman in one of the two rooms built on a farm leased by Kukdola village resident Umed Singh. According to the police, Umed Singh had taken eight acres of land on lease on the side of the road leading from Panchgaon Chowk to Kasan village.
It was Umed Singh who informed the police about it after he found the half-burnt body.
“My neighbour called me and told me he saw some smoke coming out of one of the rooms on my farm. When I went to the farm, I found a half-burnt torso in the room and I informed the police,” Umed Singh said in his complaint.
On Umed Singh’s complaint, an FIR was registered under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (hiding evidence) of the IPC at Manesar Police Station.
(With PTI inputs)
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