Overview
- Keshav Puram police received a 1:05 am call from Dinesh Sharma reporting his wife hanging inside their Ganeshpura apartment in Tri Nagar.
- Responding officers found 40-year-old Sushma Sharma lying on the floor with neck findings that police said did not align with hanging.
- Sharma, a priest at a Shiv temple in Kanhaiya Nagar, confessed during questioning to using a gamchha and a pillow to kill her, according to officials.
- A murder case was registered after crime and forensics teams inspected the one-room flat, and the body was sent to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital for post-mortem.
- Police cite frequent domestic disputes as context, and the victim’s family alleges an extramarital affair as the motive, with the couple’s 11-year-old daughter asleep in the same room.