Crime to be probed under 'rarest of rare' cases
By Sunil Kumar
The Pioneer
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Dehradoon - Denizens of Dehradoon woke up to news of the grisly
murder of 33-year-old Anupama Gulati by her husband and software
engineer Rajesh (37) on Monday. Gulati, who allegedly murdered his
wife, cut the body into pieces and hid it in a deep freezer for
nearly two months, was sent to four days police remand by a local
court.
Police said it would investigate the case under "rare of the rarest
cases" and take help of forensic experts who were seen busy
collecting evidence at the couple's home in Prakash Vihar. The
woman's body had been chopped into 72 pieces with the help of a stone
cutter after she was strangled on October 17.
The incident has put a question mark on the safety of women within
the family, especially as the victim had earlier called a women's
helpline to seek aid.
The murder came to light on Sunday when Siddhanta Pradhan, brother of
the victim, lodged a complaint with the police after he failed to get
any satisfactory answer from the accused about his sister.
After the complaint, police arrested Gulati from his rented
accommodation at Prakash Vihar, Senior Superintendent of Police,
Dehradoon, GS Martolia said, adding that Gulati confessed to having
murdered Anupama.
"We started yelling at each other and we pushed each other. She fell
and her forehead struck the corner of the bed causing her to lose
consciousness. I panicked. Already, there was a case of domestic
violence against me. Mujhe pata nahin uske baad maine kya kiya (I
don't remember what I did at this point," Gulati said.
Gulati said he did not inform their four-year-old twins of what had
transpired even though he would drop them at school and pick up them
up daily. He later told them that their mother had gone to Delhi.
They are currently in a state of shock and in the care of their
maternal uncle. Pradhan said Gulati had been only using SMS and e-
mail to communicate about his wife which aroused his suspicion. He
had told Pradhan that their relationship had improved.
Martolia said Gulati first knocked Anupama's head against a wall
following a violent quarrel after which she fell unconscious. Later,
he strangled her in a fit of rage, cut the body into pieces with an
iron cutter and stashed it in a deep freezer. He kept in touch with
his in-laws through Anupama's e-mail. He first kept Anupama's remains
in a deep freezer and once the bleeding stopped, cut them into
smaller pieces with the help of a stone cutter. Due to this, there
were no bloodstains in the spot.
Gulati had visited Kolkata where he had been in touch with a woman.
He later got married to her which sparked further domestic dispute. A
suspicious Pradhan landed in Dehradoon on Saturday to enquire about
his sister. The couple had settled down in Dehradoon 18 months ago.
He found only the children at home who said she had gone to her
father's residence. Suspecting foul play, Pradhan called the police.
Police later arrested Gulati from Rajpur Road. Investigations led to
the discovery of parts of the woman's torso stuffed in black
polythene bags inside the freezer.
The two knew each other since 1992 and were married on February 10,
1999. They went to the United States in 2000. The twins were born in
June 2006. In 2008, they returned to Delhi after he was rendered
unemployed due to recession and shifted to Dehradoon 18 months ago.
Gulati started working from home as an agent in commodity brokering
with a US based company.
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