Major Nikhil Handa, who is currently posted in Nagaland's Dimapur, was arrested from Meerut's Daurala district on Sunday and was brought to Delhi for further questioning. (Photo: ANI) New Delhi: Indian Army Major Nikhil Handa, who was arrested on Sunday from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, in connection with the murder of the wife of a fellow officer, was 'obsessed' with the woman and wanted to marry her. Handa murdered her on Saturday when he found out she was unlikely to reciprocate his feelings, the Delhi Police said. The deceased Shailza Dwivedi, wife of Major Amit Dwivedi, was attacked by Nikhil Handa with a knife in his car, then thrown out of the vehicle and run over, police said. Read: Army Major's wife found dead with throat slit in Delhi's Brar Square Major Nikhil Handa, who is currently posted in Nagaland's Dimapur, was arrested from Meerut's Daurala district on Sunday and was brought to Delhi for further questioning. During an argument, he attacked her with a knife, threw her out of the car and drove over her. Shailza Dwivedi was murdered when she had gone for a physiotherapy session at the Army hospital. She was picked up from there by Major Handa. Also Read: Major arrested in Army officer's wife killing knew her since 2015, say police CCTV footage from outside the Army Base Hospital in the cantonment area showed Shailza Dwidevi getting into a car. Her body was found in the area half-an hour later. She was run over, but the police found that her throat was slit before that. In the CCTV footage, a Honda City car was seen, "in which there was only one person" the police said. Police said, Major Handa reached Delhi on Saturday and asked Shailza Dwivedi to meet him. During the drive, they had an argument. He was obsessive and pressured her to marry him and when she refused, "he stabbed her with a knife... he pushed her from the car and ran over her body to make it look like an accident," an officer said. The car, the police said, has enough evidence of the crime -- bloodstains, more than one knife etc. Cops found a Swiss knife, which had prints all over it, the police said. He tried to clean the car with towels, but there were traces of blood still, an officer said. "It looks like he slit her (throat) suddenly," he said. Major Handa and 30-year-old Shailza Dwivedi had met in 2015 in Nagaland when her husband was posted there. They kept in touch even when she came to Delhi along with her husband who was transferred to the capital. They talked continuously on phone, though he was the one who called her more often, the police said. Major Dwivedi once walked in during a video call between the two. "He confronted his wife and Nikhil and warned him not to talk to his wife or come to his house," said an officer of the Delhi Police during a press conference on Sunday evening. Major Handa was arrested after Major Dwivedi revealed his suspicion to the police and subsequent investigations were made. "We raided many places overnight for Nikhil Handa. We tracked his movement. We found out he went towards Meerut. He resisted a bit when asked to join the investigation," the police said. The police said Major Handa had been out of touch with everyone lately, including his family. He had even gotten himself admitted in a hospital "because of migraines". Further investigation in the case is underway, the police said.<doc-sep>The Delhi police have arrested accused Major Nikhil Handa in the murder case of Army Major's wife Shailaja, who was found dead on Saturday, with her throat slit. A team of Delhi police was dispatched after suspect's Honda City car was spotted in Meerut. The accused was soon arrested and brought to Delhi. According to the police, Shailaja was last seen with an unidentified man in a private car. He ran her over to disguise the murder as an accident, the police said. The cops have also found some evidence in Shailaja's phone, which point out to some kind of estrangement between her and the murderer. Major Nikhil Handa is accused in the murder case of Army Major's wife Shailaja. Photo: Puneet Kumar Sharma Indian Army Major Amit Dwivedi's wife was found dead on Saturday afternoon with her throat slit and body run over by the killer's vehicle on Brar Square, close to Delhi Cantonment metro station. The deceased had left home in the morning for a physiotherapy session at the Army's base hospital in Delhi Cantonment. Shailaja Dwivedi and her husband Amit Dwivedi tied the knot in 2009 and have a six-year-old son together. An official vehicle assigned to the Army Major dropped her to the hospital. However, when the vehicle went to pick her up, the driver was told that major's wife didn't come for physiotherapy. At around 1:30 in the noon, her dead body was found near Delhi Cantonment metro station. Passersby informed the police about an unidentified woman's body lying on the road. After the police reached the crime scene, they found that the 30-year-old woman's throat was slit by a sharp-edged weapon. The Army Major is posted in Dimapur, Nagaland. The two tied the knot in 2009 and have a six-year-old son together. ALSO READ: Police identify key suspect in murder case of Army Major's wife<doc-sep>An Indian Army Major was arrested on Sunday from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut for his alleged involvement in the murder of a fellow officer’s wife, who was found with her throat slit near the Delhi Cantonment Metro station, police officials said. A day after the body of 35-year-old Shailza Dwivedi, wife of Indian Army Major Amit Dwivedi, was found on an isolated road near Brar Square, police said they had arrested Major Nikhil Rai Handa from the army’s cantonment in Meerut as he was trying to flee. A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Handa was “obsessed” with Shailza and was enraged because she had been snubbing his advances and was trying to distance herself from him. Shailza’s family, too, accused Handa of stalking her. Her brother, a lawyer in Amritsar, alleged that Handa had mistaken his sister’s “friendly behaviour” as a signal that she liked him. The police were initially informed that Shailza had died in an accident. When they inspected her body, the officials discovered that she had been attacked. During his questioning, Handa said Shailza was “over-obsessed” with him and had been pressuring him to divorce his wife and marry her, the official said. The arrested army officer has confessed to killing Shailza, saying he committed the crime to “get rid of her”, he added. Madhup Tiwari, joint commissioner of police (western range), said they were investigating the claims made by Handa. “What we know so far is that the army officer was obsessed with the woman. We will question him further,” said Tiwari, adding that Handa used a pocket knife to slit Shailza’s throat. Shailza, who had reportedly participated in Mrs India Earth pageant in 2017-18, and Handa knew each other since 2015, when her husband was posted in Nagaland’s Dimapur, the police said. The two would meet during official functions and social gatherings there, they said. Shailza returned to Amritsar from Dimapur with her six-year-old son after her husband was transferred to Delhi for an official training. Her husband is being sent to Congo on a United Nations mission, the police said. Deputy commissioner of police (west) Vijay Kumar said the pocket knife used in the crime has been recovered along with a bigger knife from Handa’s Honda City car that he was driving at the time of the crime. About the sequence of events leading to Shailza’s murder, the DCP said that the two had a telephonic conversation at about 8am on Saturday and decided to meet outside the Army Base hospital in West Delhi. Handa’s son is admitted in the hospital, while Shailza was visiting the hospital for physiotherapy. Around 11.30am, the two met and they left in the Honda City car that Handa was driving. A police officer associated with the probe said that an argument broke out between Shailza and Handa while they were driving around in the Delhi Cantonment area. “Handa turned violent, took out the pocket knife he had kept in the car and slit Shailza’s throat. As he stopped the car, Shailza came out and fell on the car’s bonnet. When she started walking, Handa rammed the car her from behind. She fell on the road. Handa ran the car over her. The body was dragged for a few metres. Handa sped away, leaving Shailza to die,” the officer said, adding that Handa had cleaned the blood on the knife and the car’s bonnet using a towel. After the crime, Handa went to the hospital to meet his son and wife. He did not tell them about the crime. From there, he went to his parents’ home in Saket and told them that he had been involved in an accident. He then visited his uncle’s home in Chittaranjan Park. “When Handa saw on news channels that the police were looking for him, he fled to Meerut and spent the night in army’s mess,” the officer said. The police said Handa had come to Delhi from Dimapur on June 4 on the pretext of getting medical treatment at the army hospital for his migraine problem. He got himself admitted at the hospital before leaving for Amritsar, where he stayed for three-four days and met Shailza. After returning to Delhi, he admitted his son to the hospital for treatment of a stomach-related disease, they said. “We are questioning Handa to ascertain what exactly triggered him to kill Shailza. He will also be quizzed to know if he had planned the crime in advance,” said the joint commissioner of police. Shailza’s body has been handed over to her family members after autopsy at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital. The family left for Amritsar with the body on Sunday evening.<doc-sep>Army Major, Nikhil Handa (C) (in red t-shirt), was arrested in relation to the murder of another Major's wife from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut. NEW DELHI: After an 18-hour manhunt, city police on Sunday morning managed to arrest Major Nikhil Rai Handa, the officer suspected of murdering Shailja Dwivedi (35), the wife of another Major in the Indian Army , on Saturday afternoon. He was arrested from Meerut . A common friend of the couple, Handa (39) had fallen in love with Shailja during their posting in Dimapur , Nagaland , and had been pursuing her. Unable to handle rejection, police claimed, he planned to kill her in cold blood. He came to the Army Base Hospital on Saturday to meet her one last time and slit her throat with a knife inside his Honda City car, they said. He then threw her body onto the road and ran her over twice to pass off the death as an accident. Her body was found around 1.28pm near Brar Square, Delhi Cantt , on Saturday. TOI was the first to report on Sunday that a Major in the Indian Army was the prime suspect. Special commissioner (law and order) R P Upadhyay confirmed the developments. "Handa had fled to Meerut after the murder. Six teams were formed to track him down. He was caught after an extensive probe revealed his location," Upadhyay told TOI. The police said Handa had stayed overnight at the Army mess in Meerut and planned to dispose of the car at the local scrap market there. The police pieced together the sequence of events that preceded the murder. Shailja was not just a homemaker, but also an active participant in social welfare activities. In 2017, she was a finalist at Mrs India Earth pageant, where she won the title of "Mrs Earth Creative" too.<doc-sep>
Major Nikhil Rai Handa was nabbed from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut on Sunday and his interrogation was on. Major Nikhil Rai Handa was nabbed from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut on Sunday and his interrogation was on. THE DELHI Police arrested an Army officer, Major Nikhil Rai Handa (40), from Meerut on Sunday in connection with the murder of another Army Major’s wife in the Capital. Shailza Dwivedi (35), wife of Major Amit Dwivedi, was found dead at Brar Square, near Delhi Cantonment Metro station, on Saturday. Police said her throat had been slit and, according to eyewitnesses, she was thrown out of a vehicle which then ran over her. Joint Commissioner of Police (western range) Madhup Tiwari said they were questioning Handa. Police sources said preliminary questioning suggested that Handa was “obsessed” with the victim. “He told us that the woman was forcing him to marry her,” said a police source. According to police sources, Handa and Shailza got to know each other through Facebook in 2015. Later, after they became friends, she reportedly introduced him to her husband in Dimapur, where both the officers were posted at the time. While Handa was earlier posted in Meerut, he was transferred to Dimapur about a year ago. His family lives in Saket, in South Delhi. About two months ago, Dwivedi came to Delhi for a training programme. According to Shailza’s brother, Dwivedi was scheduled to join a UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan. “When Handa tried to go beyond mere friendship, Shailza started ignoring him. Reports of my sister having an affair with him are completely false,” Shailza’s brother told The Indian Express. On Saturday, Handa reportedly called Shailza to the Army Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment, where he had taken his son for treatment. According to police, Shailza went to the hospital at 10 am. She left the hospital half-an-hour later and was found dead around 1.30 pm. Police said she had been visiting the hospital for the last four days for treatment of her ankle. According to police sources, Handa has said that he picked up Shailza from outside the hospital. While they were driving around, they reportedly had an argument and he attacked her with a knife, after which she jumped out of his vehicle and started running. Police sources said Handa then mowed her down, before fleeing the spot. DCP (west) Vijay Kumar said Handa’s movements near the hospital and Delhi Cantonment Metro station had been corroborated with the help of CCTV footage. “He killed her between 12.30 pm and 1.15 pm. Her mobile phone, which he threw, is yet to be recovered,” said Kumar. Police said Dwivedi had raised suspicion that Handa may be behind the crime, following which a police team was set up to find him. “Handa had switched off his mobile phone, but the team picked him up from Meerut Cantonment area. His car was recovered from the Army Mess in the cantonment,” said Kumar. Meanwhile, the post-mortem examination revealed that the victim was hit on the head with a blunt object, and her throat slit. Police said the body has been handed over to her family, who have left for Amritsar to perform the last rites. Shailza and Amit Dwivedi got married in 2009 and have a six-year-old son. They stayed at the Army quarters in Naraina.