Overview
- Police found 30-year-old Sonam Joshi dead in a Karkardooma room with multiple stab wounds after a PCR call on June 28, and she was declared dead at the scene.
- Officers arrested 35-year-old Anuj Joshi within hours after relatives and local residents detained him at the house where the attack occurred.
- Police say Anuj bought a knife in Lucknow, traveled to Delhi, entered the room where Sonam was sleeping at about 5:40 a.m. and stabbed her multiple times, then tried to hide the weapon; the knife was later recovered at his instance.
- Authorities say the suspect told investigators he suspected Sonam of having an extramarital affair and that investigators are treating that claim as the likely motive while a post-mortem and forensic examinations proceed.
- The couple had three children together and the suspect has two children from a prior marriage; investigators have registered a murder case and the next steps to watch are formal charges, forensic findings and how care for the children will be arranged.