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New Delhi, June 29: Army Major Nikhil Handa, who was arrested for allegedly murdering wife of his colleague Major Amit Dwivedi, was on Friday sent to 14-day judicial custody by Delhi’s Patiala House Court.
The direction was issued by Metropolitan Magistrate Manisha Tripathy.
The development comes a day after the Delhi Police recovered the knife, allegedly used by Major Nikhil Handa to slit Shailja Dwivedi’s throat, from a spot near the Meerut-Muzaffarnagar highway.
Traces of burnt clothes were also recovered from the spot, the police said.
The investigators also found a lot of pornographic material on Major Handa’s cell phones. However, the accused had deleted his chat record and the messages exchanged with the victim, Shailja Dwivedi, the police said, adding that the phones will be sent for a forensic examination.
Major Nikhil Handa was arrested on June 24 from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh for his alleged involvement in the killing of another Major’s wife in west Delhi on Saturday.
The woman’s body was found with her throat slit near the Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment area.
Initially, the police was informed that a woman had died in an accident. Later, when they inspected the body, it was found that her throat was slit, the police had said.
The accused had allegedly run a car over her face and the body in order to make the incident appear as an accident, the police has alleged.
The woman was earlier dropped at the Army Base Hospital in her husband’s official vehicle.
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