Mumbai: Man kills his wife, hides her body at house in Kanjurmarg; held from Uttar Pradesh

The suspect in custody of the team of Mumbai Crime Branch`s Unit 7 on Thursday. Pic/ Mumbai Police sources

Mumbai Police on Thursday said that a man was held from a village in Uttar Pradesh after he allegedly killed his wife and later hid her dead body in his house in Kanjurmarg area of eastern Mumbai.

According to the police, the Kanjurmarg Police has registered a murder case after a dead body of a 22-year-old woman was found wrapped in a bed sheet inside the house where she lived. The woman's dead body was found on Tuesday with its hands and legs tied and wrapped in a bed sheet.

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Following the murder, the woman's husband was found to be untraceable. The two had got married some months ago and had been living in a rented house in Kanjurmarg, the police said.

A murder case was registered by the Kanjurmarg police which has been investigating the matter, the police said.

The case was also being probed by the Mumbai Crime Branch's Unit 7 which had formed multiple teams to solve the murder case, the police said.

Sources said, The murder took place on Sunday and their neighbours complained of bad odour emanating from the house and informed the police.

During primary investigations of the Unit 7, the officials found that the woman's husband who was identified as Rajesh Yadav, 24 had been untraceable after the murder. The officials began tracing him and found that Yadav was a local resident of a village in Gazipur in Uttar Pradesh.

"A team of officials was sent to to his village in Gazipur to trace him but it was found that he had not reached there. The officials began to further trace his location and found that he was in a different village to dodge the police action against him," an official said.

He added that his location was traced by the crime branch officials who initially detained him for questioning and in his interrogations found that he had allegedly killed his wife who was identified as Deepa. The motive behind the murder is further being investigated by the police.

The police said that Yadav was later brought to Mumbai by the crime branch officials and handed over to Kanjurmarg Police for further legal action.

"The Mumbai Crime Branch's Unit 7 took only 24 hours to trace and nab the suspect in the matter who was brought to the city after being detailed from his native district and later handed over to the local police for further investigations," the official added.