Man kills wife after she broke his phone during altercation over her 'extramarital affair'

New Delhi, July 9

A 29-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his wife after she broke his mobile phone during an altercation in southeast Delhi’s Badarpur area, police said on Saturday.

The accused has been identified as Dhrijesh, a resident of Budh Vihar, they said.

The police received a call on Monday about the incident. The caller told the police said that a woman had been hit on her head, officials said.

The police rushed to the spot and found that injured had already been shifted to Apollo Hospital, they said.

Eyewitness Akbar (33) said there was an altercation between a man and his wife during which Dhrijesh hit the woman with a brick and she fell down, a senior police officer said.

The police went to the Apollo Hospital and received the medico-legal case of Sandhya (31), the officer said.

During inquiry, the caller, identified as Faridabad-resident Hitesh Bhardwaj said while returning from Lady Shri Ram College after his duty, he reached a park in where he saw that some people had gathered, police said.

He saw an injured woman there. He along with the Sandhya’s husband shifted her to the hospital, police said.

Dhrijesh suspected that his wife was having an extramarital affair. This led to an altercation between them at the park following which Sandhya broke his mobile phone. Thereafter, Dhrijesh hit on her head with a brick, the officer said.

A case of attempt to murder was registered which was later converted into murder case when Sandhya succumbed to injures during treatment. Dhrijesh has been arrested and sent to judicial custody, police said.

He works at a private auto parts manufacturing company in Faridabad. They have one nine-year-old daughter, police added.