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Indian arrested for butchering wife, hiding body in fridge
Dec 13, 2010, 8:27 GMT
New Delhi - A software engineer in India allegedly killed his wife, cut the body into pieces and kept it in a deep freezer for two months, news reports said Monday, citing police officials.
The crime was detected after police found a bag containing body parts in the couple's home in Dehradun, a city 250 kilometres north of New Delhi, the NDTV network reported.
Police said Rajesh Gulati, 37, was arrested Sunday after admitting he had killed his wife Anupama on October 17, following a quarrel, the report said.
Police began investigations after the woman's family complained that she had been missing for many days.
Gulati hit his wife's head against a wall, then strangled the unconscious woman and cut her body into pieces, police were quoted as saying.
'Rajesh Gulati bought a deep freezer after the act and stashed all pieces of his wife's body into it,' senior police official MA Ganapathy told NDTV.
'Everyday Rajesh went out and dumped some of the pieces little by little on the outskirts of the city,' he added.
The couple and their two children had returned to India from the United States nearly two years ago.
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