A 35-year-old man and his accomplice have been arrested for the alleged murder of his former wife in November last year, police said Tuesday/
Deepak Gupta and his friend Sunil Kumar, 38, were arrested from east Delhi’s Ashok Nagar earlier this week.
Deepak and his wife, whose name was not disclosed, were divorced in 2011 following complaints that he subjected her to physical abuse. He planned the murder as she had started living with a relative after the divorce, police said.
“He roped in Kumar to assist him in the murder of his wife,” Ashok Chand, deputy commissioner of police, crime and railways, said.
As per the plan, Gupta asked his wife to come to the Japanese Park in Rohini on Nov 29, their wedding anniversary.
“When she reached there, Gupta and Kumar took her in a car on the pretext of visiting a Jain Temple in Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh. On the way, they killed her,” Chand said.
The duo then dumped h