The Azad Maidan police on Tuesday arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend and disposing of her body at Oval Maidan.
According to the police, the woman was found lying in a pool of blood at Oval Maidan on Tuesday morning and was rushed to GT Hospital, where she was declared dead before admission. Based on the stab wounds on her body, the Azad Maidan police registered a complaint of murder against unknown persons and initiated inquiries.
A couple of hours later, Mumbra resident Umar Sheikh (45) reached the police station and said his daughter Nasreen (20) had been missing since Monday, and that he suspected she was the woman the police had found. The police took him to the GT Hospital, where he identified the deceased as his daughter.
“Mr. Sheikh was accompanied by Salman Sheikh, also a resident of Mumbra, who was in a relationship with Nasreen. Mr. Sheikh told us that he suspected Salman of having something to do with Nasreen’s death, as he had met her on Monday evening. Nasreen used to work for a café in Fort, while Salman was employed by a food delivery company,” senior police inspector Vasant Wakhare, Azad Maidan police station, said.
Cheating suspicion
The police said when Nasreen did not return home at her usual time, Mr. Sheikh called up Salman, and both went to Oval Maidan, as Salman said he had last met her there after work. At Oval Maidan, Mr. Sheikh learned that a woman’s body had been found there in the morning. Hence, they went to the police station.
The police questioned Salman, who at first maintained that he had gone to Oval Maidan with Nasreen after work, but left after they got into a fight.
“We asked him how he left her alone late at night, and he started faltering. We then questioned him intensively, and he ultimately confessed to having stabbed Nasreen to death as he suspected her of cheating on him,” Mr Wakhare said.
Salman was placed under arrest. The police will produce him in court on Wednesday to seek his custody for further interrogation. The police suspect that the murder was pre-planned and that Salman was carrying a dagger with him with the intention of killing Nasreen on Monday.