'Slit throat with scissors': Gurgaon CA murders pregnant banker wife after tiff during long drive

ROHTAK: The execution of a 27-year-old slope employee, recovered with her pharynx slit adjacent Bahadurgarh successful Jhajjar district, was solved wrong 18 hours, with constabulary arresting her hubby — a chartered accountant from Hisar — arsenic the premier accused.

Investigators said the accused killed his woman implicit repeated suspicions astir her quality and past attempted to walk it disconnected arsenic a robbery-cum-murder. The victim, Mahak, worked with HDFC Bank successful Gurgaon. She was joined to Anshul Dhawan, a chartered accountant and nonmigratory of Hisar’s Sector 14, connected September 25, 2025, successful an arranged marriage. The mates had been joined for hardly 5 months. On Valentine’s Day (February 14), the mates visited Hisar and stayed with family. The adjacent evening, astir 7 p.m. connected February 15, they near Mahak’s parental location successful Hansi for Gurugram. About 4 hours later, Anshul called the police, claiming unidentified attackers had intercepted their car adjacent Pahsaur colony successful the Badli country of Jhajjar district, killed his wife, and fled. Police recovered Mahak’s assemblage lying extracurricular the car connected a ungraded way astir 100 metres disconnected the Jhajjar-Badli road. Her pharynx had been slit.

However, Anshul’s mentation soon fell isolated during questioning. He failed to picture the alleged attackers and repeatedly changed his statement. During sustained interrogation and a transgression country reconstruction, Anshul confessed. Police said the mates often argued implicit his suspicions astir Mahak’s character. The quality escalated during the drive, starring him to archetypal strangle her and past slit her pharynx with a brace of scissors, allegedly portion wearing gloves to debar leaving evidence.

He aboriginal staged the country to lucifer a robbery. Mahak’s father, Krishna Kathuria, had expressed suspicion against his son-in-law from the outset. Family members besides stated that Mahak was large astatine the clip of her death. Police person arrested the accused and are proceeding with further investigation.