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A 21-year-old Delhi University student was allegedly killed by her lover, who hid her body for five days and married another woman during the period before the murder came to light Sunday
when the body was found in a shaft at his residence in northwest Delhi’s Model Town. The accused Naveen Khatri (23) has been arrested. He allegedly strangulated his girlfriend Arzoo Singh
Chauhan, who lived in the same neighbourhood, on Tuesday and dumped her body in the shaft of his building. Khatri later got married to another woman on Thursday, police said. Arzoo’s parents
had lodged a missing complaint on Tuesday evening and when the woman could not be found for days, a case of abduction was registered Saturday. After preliminary investigation and Arzoo’s
relatives constantly raising suspicion over Khatri’s family, police questioned Khatri Sunday and he “confessed” to the crime, police said. Meanwhile, locals in Gurmandi locality, which comes
under the jurisdiction of Model Town police station in northwest Delhi, complained of a terrible stench on Sunday. Later, Arzoo’s decomposed body was recovered from the shaft of Khatri’s
residence, police said. While Arzoo was a final year student at Lakshmibai College under the University of Delhi, Khatri’s only source of income is house rent. The police are also probing
the role of other members of the Khatri family, especially Khatri’s father, in the incident as they had apparently objected to their relationship and wanted Khatri to marry the other woman,
police said. He got married two days later. It is suspected that others in the family had knowledge of the crime, police said adding that Arzoo’s body has been sent for postmortem
examination and several persons have been questioned so far. A relative of victim claimed that that Arzoo and Khatri wanted to marry, but it was mutually decided that marriage can’t happen
as they were from the same village. The family members also said that before Arzoo went missing, the victim attended all her classes and her phone was switched off from 4 pm onwards.