New Delhi: After getting misled for several days, Delhi Police was finally able to recover the knife which was used by Major Nikhil Handa to kill the Shailza Dwivedi in Delhi Cantt area. The weapon of offence was recovered near Meerut-Muzaffarnagar Highway. The police also recovered traces of burnt clothes from the spot.
The investigators also found that the accused has deleted his chats, messages that were exchanged with the victim. The phones will be sent for a forensic examination. "Some indecent materials were also recovered," said the police sources. Deceased's phone that was broken by the accused will also be investigated but the police suspect that chances of data recovery are quite low since its motherboard is badly damaged. A senior officer, privy to the probe, said that a CCTV grab showed that when Handa was going towards Meerut, he had taken a detour on the Meerut-Muzaffarnagar highway. Police also recovered his clothes that he had burnt and will be sending them for a forensic examination. The accused person's police custody is ending on Friday and the investigators are not likely to seek an extension of police custody in the court. After killing the woman, Army major Nikhil Handa continued to mislead the investigators even as he was taken to different areas to ascertain the places he visited after the incident. The police claimed that the accused had also planned to flee to Agra after the crime but due to awareness of topography, he choose Meerut for the hideout.
The victim's body was found with her throat slit near Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment area on Saturday. Initially, the police was informed that a woman had died in an accident. But later, when they inspected the body, it was found that her throat was slit. The accused had allegedly run his car over her face and the body in order to make the incident appear as an accident.