Unhappy with her married life,
the wife of an Air Force sergeant apparently murdered him with the help
of her 17-year-old boyfriend.
The 28-year-old woman and her boyfriend claimed the 40-year-old man had died of a heart attack.
The woman went on to live with the teenager, until the postmortem called their bluff a month later.
Sudha Gupta, a teacher, and her
boyfriend broke down on questioning and admitted to strangling Sergeant
Ramesh Chandra at his home in Subrato Park in Delhi Cantonment on April
10 after he had passed out, having drunk from morning to noon.
The couple have a three-year-old
daughter, who will now join her mother in Tihar Jail on Sunday as she
has no one to look after her.
The teenager (name withheld) has been sent to a reformational home.
Sudha told police she was
dissatisfied with her sex life since their marriage in 2008 and
Chandra’s alcoholism had strained their relationship within two years.
As a top student in her
postgraduate exams, she aspired to a better life and began teaching at
an engineering coaching institute a few months ago where she met the
teenager, the son of an IAF employee.
“The boy fell in love with Sudha
and made advances. She fell for his flirtatious conversations and he
would drop her home on his bike after work,” said a police officer,
quoting her statement. “Her husband, who would often be drunk, would
reprimand her.”
Soon enough, Chandra suspected Sudha of infidelity and asked her to stay away from the youth.
Sudha, however, plotted to kill
Chandra and move in with her boyfriend and live on her salary and the
compensation amount from her husband’s death.
On April 10, Chandra, though unwell, began drinking in the morning and passed out around afternoon.
Sudha called up her boyfriend
and together, they strangled him. She then called in neighbours and took
Chandra to hospital, telling them he had been complaining of chest pain
and had collapsed suddenly.
“We received information about a
person having been admitted to the station medical centre at the IAF
base because of chest pain and had been declared brought dead,” said
addl DCP (southwest) Dinesh Kumar Gupta.
“The body was sent for
postmortem and an inquiry was initiated by a team led by SHO Suresh
Kumar and Subrato Park police post in-charge SI K B Jha.”
The case remained buried until
May 6 when the postmortem report revealed that Chandra had died from
asphyxia after being strangled to death. Immediately, a case of murder
was registered and SI Jha assigned to solve the case.
When the cops visited Chandra’s house, they found it locked.
They tracked Sudha’s mobile
phone to Vasant Kunj in south Delhi where she had been living with the
teenager and her daughter after Chandra’s killing.
Electronic evidence and local inquiry revealed that the teenager was present at the couple’s house on April 10 as well.
Police said they had found a
note, apparently written by Chandra, saying if anything were to happen
to him, half the property would go to his daughter and the remaining to
charity.
The duo were detained and
questioned wherein they gave conflicting statements. They were put
through sustained interrogation during which they broke down and
confessed.
The case claimed a second victim
on Saturday as the families of Sudha and Chandra refused to take
custody of their three-year-old daughter. Police said they were trying
to convince them but as things stand, she will now be moved to Tihar.
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