The Delhi Police on Sunday arrested a truck driver from Maharashtra for allegedly killing his spouse after which residing with the corpse within the automobile for a number of days. The accused, recognized as Pradeep, was arrested by the police from Okhla after a foul odour from his truck raised suspicions throughout their seek for him associated to a lacking individual report.
In response to police sources, Pradeep had left for Delhi along with his spouse on November 13. The couple was touring in a truck, and Pradeep had been tasked to drop off some provides to a vendor in Okhla. “Whereas they had been on the way in which, an argument broke out between the couple. Pradeep suspected that his spouse had been having a bootleg affair with one other man. In a match of rage, he strangled her along with her dupatta and hid her physique contained in the truck,” mentioned a police officer.
As a substitute of reporting the crime, Pradeep continued his journey, carrying his spouse’s lifeless physique with him, in keeping with the police. They mentioned Pradeep took medicine and remained beneath the affect for a number of days, almost definitely to deal with the horrific actuality of his actions.
The incident got here to gentle when Pradeep did not return to Maharashtra. His employer, involved about his absence, contacted the corporate in Okhla the place the products had been to be delivered. “The corporate advised his employer that he had come a number of days in the past to make the drop and had left…The corporate then registered a lacking individual report upon the employer’s request,” mentioned the officer.
The police used Pradeep’s cellphone quantity to trace down his whereabouts. His location was proven to be in and round Okhla Part 2. When the police arrived on the scene, they observed a foul odour coming from a truck and found Pradeep intoxicated alongside his spouse’s decomposing physique inside.
The police took custody of the physique and despatched it for a autopsy examination to find out the precise trigger and time of the lady’s loss of life. Additionally they started interrogating Pradeep to assemble extra particulars concerning the homicide.
