This one is a mess!
Chand said Handa had accused his wife of infidelity with an unknown South African man. It is alleged that he stabbed her in a fit of rage with a kitchen knife at their rented flat in south-east Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur district on October 29.
He then allegedly strangled her with the cord of his laptop charger and kept the body overnight in the bathroom, police said.
The next day, October 30, police said, he stuffed his wife’s body in a trolley suitcase and asked a friend to give him a lift to a town called Rai, in Haryana, about 40km from his home. He also packed another bag with her clothing, which he apparently took with him.
Here Handa is believed to have bought two litres of petrol from a local garage, police said. It’s alleged that he then dragged the suitcase more than 200m into a forest clearing, doused the body with petrol and set it alight, together with the clothing, Niranjani’s passport and other personal belongings.
This story is from India where they have a very low “Gun Death” rate. Ironically the wife had emigrated from South Africa where they have both extremely restrictive gun laws and a VERY high “Gun Death” rate.
Makes “Gun Death” look like quite the relevant metric, doesn’t it?
Well … he did try to give her a proper funeral.