Husband killed by woman’s lover, accomplices; 3 held

The Gurugram Police have arrested three individuals, including the main accused, for the murder of a private company worker whose body was subsequently buried. The prime accused admitted that he orchestrated the crime to continue an illicit relationship with the victim’s wife. According to the police, the accused first kidnapped the victim and then strangled him to death before burying the body.

On the spotting of the main accused, the body was exhumed from the grave today and sent for postmortem. The police have taken the accused on five days of police remand after being produced in a city court today and are conducting raids to nab his other associates involved with him in the murder.

On the spot identification by the main accused led to the exhumation of the victim’s body, which has been sent for postmortem. The accused was sent to police custody for five days. Raids were on to apprehend other associates involved in the murder.

According to the police, on July 28, the victim’s wife, a native of Bihar’s Nawada district, lodged a missing person complaint at Udyog Vihar police station regarding her 37-year-old husband, Vikram. An FIR was registered and, on July 31, she filed another complaint stating that Ravindra, a neighbour in Dundahera village, had raped her in March 2025 after her husband went to work and also made a video of the incident. Ravindra threatened to make the video viral if she told anyone. She expressed suspicion that he had kidnapped her husband from his company on July 26.

During the investigation, the police arrested Ravindra (34), a native of Hastinapur village in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. He confessed to the murder of Vikram. In the late evening on Saturday, the police also arrested two accomplices of the main accused who were identified as Manish (19), Fariyaad (20), both residents of Bastaura Narang village in Meerut.

“The accused confessed that he had an illicit relationship with Vikram’s wife. On July 26, he along with his three accomplices, strangled him to death and buried his body near Evil Society village, Mohammadpur Jharsa village," said the spokesperson of Gurugram police.

Delhi