40-year-old man held for paramour's murder

A 40-year-old man was arrested from South Delhi's Mehrauli on Wednesday for killing his lover after he suspected her of having a relationship with other men

The accused, Dharmender Sirohi, had lured the victim on the pretext of going on a trip to Agra and later slit her throat and dumped her body in a tunnel, along with the weapon of offence.

The case came to light on April 9 when personnel at Sikandra police station in Agra found the woman's body with her throat slit. The local police began an investigation but could not crack the case.

"The Special Staff of South District had received information that a lady, whose in-laws' home was in Mehrauli, had been reportedly gone missing from her parental home in Faridabad and that she has been murdered at an unknown place. The informant also disclosed that the missing lady had been in a long extra-marital affair with a person who also resided in Mehrauli," said a senior police official.

The Special Staff investigated the case and later, using local sources, zeroed in on Sirohi and arrested him.

During interrogation, Sirohi had revealed that he was in an extra-marital relationship with the deceased woman, Mamta, all the way since 2004.

Mamta and Dharmender were already married, but continued their relationship anyway.

"However, soon their family members got wind of it. This, however, did not act as a deterrent and they kept their love affair going, albeit with secrecy. However, of late, signs of discord appeared when the accused started suspecting that the deceased was showing a lack of interest in him and interrogation of the distraught lover soon established that Mamta was involved in other relationships too," said Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Chinmoy Biswal.