A man has been arrested in Punjab for allegedly stabbing and killing his 35-year-old live-in partner in West Delhi’s Tilak Nagar, police said.
Police suspect that the man may have been inspired by Aftab Poonawalla, who is accused of killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walker and dismembering her body.
Rekha Rani’s body had stab wounds on the jaw and was recovered from her rented house in Ganesh Nagar where she lived with her 16-year-old daughter.
According to the police, Manpreet, who was already married with two children, started a relationship with Rekha in 2015 and started living with her in Ganesh Nagar. Soon, Manpreet started feeling trapped in the relationship and planned to kill his partner to escape, they said.
On the night of December 1, he stabbed his minor daughter to death with a knife when she fell asleep after taking sleeping pills. Police said he bought the knife to kill and cut up Rekha but was afraid of being caught by his daughter.
According to the police, Manpreet is also wanted in multiple kidnapping and murder cases.
A case has been registered under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (losing evidence of a crime or giving false information to screen offender) of the Indian Penal Code based on the complaint of the woman’s daughter, police said.