A woman in southwest Delhi’s Kapashera planned the perfect murder of her ‘abusive’ husband and almost got away with it too, but for the sharp eye of a police informer who spotted injuries on the body minutes before it was cremated.
The woman, Shilpi Adhikari, 32, police said, killed her husband but did not know what to do with the body after the murder.
She slept beside it for two nights inside her one-room house in Kapashera.
On the third day, she informed her neighbours and tried to pass the incident off as natural death. She almost managed to get away with it too but for a police informer, who noticed strangulation marks on the man’s neck minutes before the body was to be cremated and informed the police. The police on Tuesday arrested Shilpi and registered a case of murder.
Shilpi Adhikari, a native of West Bengal, worked as a housekeeping employee at the Royal Bank of Scotland. She waited for the weekend to execute her plan, when her husband Nitish usually drank heavily and thrashed her. It had to be done on a Saturday. She had waited the whole week. According to investigating officials, on Saturday evening after dinner, she offered Nitish alcohol. She had bought extra alcohol for her husband from a local shop near her house. “She told her husband that it was her treat and continued giving him alcohol till late in the night,” an investigating officer said.
“At around midnight, when her husband passed out she strangulated him. Unsure about what to do next, she continued to sleep in the same 8×10 feet room with the body,” the officer said.
For more than 48 hours, Shilpi did not step out. On Monday morning, at around 9 am, locals in the Kapashera village heard Shilpi crying outside her house. She was wailing loudly, a villagers later told the police.
