{"id":299094,"date":"2018-06-25T17:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=299094"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:45:46","slug":"delhi-police-arrest-army-major-for-killing-fellow-officers-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-police-arrest-army-major-for-killing-fellow-officers-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Police Arrest Army Major for killing fellow officer’s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Delhi Police has arrested Indian Army Major Nikhil Rai Handa from the Army\u2019s cantonment area in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Meerut on June 24 for his alleged involvement in the murder of a fellow officer\u2019s wife (35-year-old Shailza Dwivedi), who was found with her throat slit near the Delhi Cantonment Metro station on 23 June, police officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe questioned Handa\u2019s family members and learnt that he was earlier posted in the military engineering wing. His brother said he could have gone to Meerut. We searched 500 Army as well as private guest houses. Handa was caught while he was trying to flee,\u201d said a police officer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shailza Dwivedi and Major Handa had first met in Nagaland in 2015 when Major Amit Dwivedi was posted there. Both had kept in touch, even when she came to Delhi after her husband was transferred. Major Handa use to call her more often, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Delhi Police officer in a press conference stated, “Major Dwivedi once caught them during a video call. He even confronted his wife and Handa and warned him to not come close to his wife and his house.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Shailza\u2019s body has been handed over to her family members after autopsy at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sequence of events that led to her murder:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Major Handa reached Delhi on June 23 and asked Shailza to meet him.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CCTV footage revealed that at an Army Base Hospital in the cantonment area Shailza sat into Handa’s car.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0During the drive, they both had a heated argument, “He then stabbed her with a knife… he pushed her from the car and ran over her body to make it look like an accident,” a police officer said.<\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her body was found half-an-hour later in the same area.<\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Police found that body was run over and her throat was also slit.<\/span><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Police found bloodstains, a Swiss knife, which has prints all over it.<\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Police said that the major even tried to clean the car with towels, but still, there were blood stains.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delhi Police has arrested Indian Army Major Nikhil Rai Handa from the Army\u2019s cantonment area in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Meerut on June 24 for his alleged involvement in the murder of a fellow officer\u2019s wife (35-year-old Shailza Dwivedi), who was found with her throat slit near the Delhi Cantonment Metro station on 23 June, police officials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,2872,2873,2874,2875],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299368,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299094\/revisions\/299368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}