NEW DELHI: While investigating the murder of a 36-year-old man in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka, police claimed to have stumbled upon Instagram chats between his wife and her lover that implicated them in the killing.The woman Sushmita, 35, is alleged to be having an affair with a relative named Rahul, 24, and planned the killing of her husband, Karan Dev. They drugged Dev by giving him sleeping pills before electrocuting him to death on July 13, an investigator disclosed on Saturday.
The probe revealed that the duo gave Dev 15 sleeping pills at dinner. The chats showed that they had Googled about the time it would take for the sleeping pills to cause death. “Check once how long it takes to die after taking the medicine. It’s been three hours since he ate food. No vomiting. And no death yet either,” says one chat from Sushmita to Rahul, who replies, “If you can’t figure anything out, give him a shock.” Sushmita then asked Rahul how to tie Dev to administer the electric shock and Rahul suggested using a tape.
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In another message, she says that Dev was breathing slowly and Rahul asks her to give him more pills. Sushmita responds, “I can’t get his mouth open. I can pour water in, but I can’t give the medicine. You come here, maybe together we can manage to feed it to him.”Eventually, Dev did stop breathing, after which Sushmita raised an alarm. Dev was later taken to hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. According to cops, Sushmita claimed at the hospital that Dev had suffered an electric shock.Also Read: Two men kill their wives suspecting fidelity in separate incidentsDuring the probe and when the autopsy report was yet to be given, Dev’s younger brother, Kunal, approached the cops on July 16 and expressed suspicion over the causes of his brother’s death citing the Instagram chats between Rahul and Sushmita. Police dug deeper and found inconsistencies in Sushmita’s statements. The two were arrested early on Saturday.The woman told cops that her husband had slapped and abused her a day before Karwachauth and also often demanded money from her, angering her. Ankit Kumar Singh, DCP (Dwarka), said the accused’s mobile devices had been seized and probe was under way.
