Overview
- Mohammad Ejaz, 39, was caught in Kolkata’s Karaya area on Wednesday after leaving Delhi following his wife’s death.
- Police say he strangled his 28-year-old wife during a quarrel over dowry and money on the night of May 6 to 7 and hid her in the bed’s storage box before fleeing.
- A landlord’s police control room call about a foul smell led officers on May 8 to the decomposed body in a locked rented room in central Delhi’s Nabi Karim area.
- An FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was filed at Nabi Karim Police Station, and officers arrested Ejaz’s brother Sarfaraz, 29, on May 10 after the victim’s father alleged dowry harassment.
- Investigators report a confession and say they recovered the wife’s phone that Ejaz sold for Rs 2,500 to fund travel, with the post-mortem report pending and forensic work ongoing.