Ghaziabad man kills wife after fight, lives with body for days, then asks neighbours to call cops

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Also Read: Ghaziabad likely to be renamed soon amid demands by Hindu outfits; here's all you need to know The incident came to light after the neighbours began experiencing a foul smell coming out of the rented flat. Later, the main accused in the case, Bharat Singh, started loudly confessing his crime after sitting in front of his house, reported NDTV. Also Read: Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS Corridor: PM Modi inaugurates India's first Regional Rapid Transit System | Watch After finding out about the crime, neighbours immediately informed the police about the incident.

Soon, the 55-year-old man was arrested by the police. After finding the information about the case, police reached the spot and arrested Bharat Singh. The police also recovered the dead body of Bharat's 51-year-old wife, senior police officer Naresh Kumar told NDTV on Sunday.

The investigation is going on in the matter. Also Read: India’s emerging e-commerce hotspots: Visakhapatnam, Ghaziabad and Faridabad Expressing their shock towards the incident, neighbours said that they were clueless about the crime and got to know about it only when Singh told them that he had killed his wife and wanted to surrender to the cops. The police got the information about the crime from the neighbours.

The neighbours told the police that Bharat had choked his wife Sunita to death, Kumar said. He also said that the accused has admitted his crime and accepted that he killed his wife during an altercation over a family issue. "On reaching there, we found the body at their home.

The murder appears to have happened at least three days back. We have arrested the accused. He has told us during questioning that he killed his wife during an altercation over a family issue.