Man held for killing wife

Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a 30-year-old man for killing his wife in Central Delhis Paharganj area earlier this month suspecting her of having an illicit relationship.

Written by: Express News Service

1 min readNew DelhiOct 20, 2012 01:35 AM IST First published on: Oct 20, 2012 at 01:35 AM IST

Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a 30-year-old man for killing his wife in Central Delhi’s Paharganj area earlier this month suspecting her of having an illicit relationship.

Mohammad Rashid,who is from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh,used to live with his wife Shazia (22) in Old Delhi before she left for her parents’ home after an argument.

Suspecting that she was having an extra-marital relationship,Rashid allegedly smothered Shazia to death with a pillow in a hotel,a police officer said.

Shazia’s body was recovered from a room in a Paharganj hotel.

The postmortem report confirmed “smothering” as cause of the death.

Man held for killing wife

Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a 30-year-old man for killing his wife in Central Delhis Paharganj area earlier this month suspecting her of having an illicit relationship.

Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a 30-year-old man for killing his wife in Central Delhis Paharganj area earlier this month suspecting her of having an illicit relationship.