Overview
- Police identified the victim as Nisha, 34, from Uttarakhand’s Almora district, and named her husband, Rajendra/Rajender, as the accused with his age reported variously as 26 or 38.
- Officers said the couple met on Instagram, married on December 10 last year, moved to Naharpur in Manesar, and worked at separate manufacturing firms.
- According to police, an argument escalated when the woman raised hot tongs, the husband struck her with a rolling pin, and he then tightened a scarf around her neck, causing her death.
- Police said the suspect went to his brother’s room and then to work after the incident, returned the next morning, and told the landlord, who alerted authorities.
- Manesar police took him into custody at the scene, Times Now reported he was later arrested after confessing, a murder case has been registered on a relative’s complaint, and the post-mortem report is awaited as statements are gathered.