Woman killed in UK: Husband on run denied bail by Delhi court
Eight months after a 24-year-old Delhi woman was murdered in East London, a Delhi court on Wednesday denied pre-arrest bail to her husband, who is absconding.
Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar Meena of Dwarka court denied the man anticipartory bail after hearing arguments for an hour.
The man, accused of murdering his wife, was purportedly last spotted withdrawing money from a bank in Gurgaon on March 4. He has been on the run since last November, when his wife's body was found in the boot of his car in East London. A postmortem report had listed strangulation as the preliminary cause of death.
The Delhi Police had earlier issued a Look Out Circular against him, after he was suspected to have arrived in the Capital. It had subsequently declared him a Proclaimed Offender on May 1.
According to the latest status report filed before the Delhi High Court by the Station House Officer of Palam Village police station, details of two banks – collected by the police on April 4 – from where the accused withdrew money were mentioned. Further, it said the husband's cellphone was recovered from an autorickshaw driver on March 22.
The HC, in an earlier hearing, had asked the police to file an updated status report outlining the steps they have taken to arrest the accused.
The parents of the man were arrested in connection with the murder on March 14. While the mother is currently out on bail, the father is still behind bars. The police, meanwhile, has announced a Rs 50,000 reward for any information leading to the man's arrest.
Sakshi Chand is working as an Assistant Editor with the Indian Express. She has over a decade of experience in covering crime, prisons, traffic and human interest stories. She has also covered the communal clashes in Kasganj, Aligarh, Trilokpuri riots as well as the North-East Delhi riots. Apart from being a journalist, she is also a National level basketball player and a coach. Before joining the Indian Express, she was working for The Times of India. ... Read More
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