How a nose pin led Delhi Police to arrest businessman for killing wife, dumping body in drain

The victim's body was discovered in a drain on March 15. (Representational image)

The Delhi Police cracked the case of the murder of a 47-year-old woman, whose body was found in a drain last month, with the help of a nose pin and has arrested her property dealer husband in the case.

The victim, identified as 47-year-old Seema Singh, was reported missing and her body was discovered in a drain on March 15. However, it remained unidentified for 15 days until investigators traced her identity through a nose pin she was wearing, according to a report by the Times of India.

The body was found wrapped in a bedsheet and tied to a stone and cement sack, in a drain in Delhi.

The nose pin led the police to a jewellery store in South Delhi and upon checking the records, they found the nose pin was bought by Anil Kumar, a property dealer who lived at a farmhouse in Gurugram. The bill was issued in his name, according to NDTV.

When the cops asked Kumar to let them speak to his wife, he allegedly told them she had gone to Vrindavan without a phone, thus raising suspicion.

The cops then tracked down the woman's family through a number found in a diary at Kumar's Dwarka office. The family told the cops that they hadn't spoken to Seema Singh since March 11.

Seema’s sister said that when the family asked Kumar, he told them Seema was in Jaipur and that she wasn't in the mood to speak. He assured them that he would ask her to talk to them when she was in a better mood, but it had been several days, and still, no contact had been established.

On April 1, the family was called to identify a woman's body. And they found out it was her. A day later, her elder son too identified the body as her mother's. Singh was strangled to death, the family said citing the post-mortem report, NDTV reported.

The victim's family also claimed that only the couple had keys to their Dwarka house.

Police have arrested the husband and the guard and further investigation is underway to ascertain the motive behind the murder.