NEW DELHI – The Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have cracked the case ofthe murder of an Army major’s wife who was found dead in Delhi Cantonmentarea on Saturday. A senior police officer said that Major Nikhil Handa wasarrested from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh for his alleged involvement in thekilling of the 30-year old woman.

The woman, identified as Shailja, wife of Major Amit Dwivedi, was founddead with her throat slit near Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment area onSaturday. She was also run over by a car and initially, the police wasinformed that a woman had died in an accident. Later, when they inspectedthe body, it was found that her throat had been slit, they said.

The police had said that it had some clues about the accused and on Sunday,Handa was arrested from Meerut. After the arrest, they informed theircounterparts in Meerut.

He was later brought to the national capital for further investigation.

The police claimed that Handa, currently posted in Nagaland’s Dimapur, knewthe woman since 2015. He was reportedly “obsessed” with the woman andwanted to marry her.

“He (Handa) was obsessed with her… He wanted to marry her,” DeputyCommissioner of Police (West Delhi) Vijay Kumar, said.

Major Handa met Shailja about three years ago in Nagaland where he wasworking with her husband. She moved to Delhi after Major Dwivedi’s transfer.

The two had an argument yesterday following which he allegedly slit herthroat. He then ran a car over her face and the body in order to make theincident appear as an accident, police said.

“During an argument on Saturday near Brar Square, he attacked the womanwith a knife, threw her out of the car and ran over her,” Kumar said.

The woman was dropped at Army base hospital in her husband’s officialvehicle by a driver, they said. Later, when he came back to pick her up, hecould not find her and learnt that she did not attend her scheduledphysiotherapy session, the police said.