DEHRADUN: Two days after a 31-year-old woman from Greater Noida was found dead in her hotel room in Nainital, Uttarakhand Police have arrested her live-in partner, identified as Imran Khan. Using an ID found at the crime site, police tracked Imran’s location to Ghaziabad. On Wednesday, the 34-year-old was arrested from a pharmacy near Sihani Gate in Ghaziabad.
SP City Devendra Pincha told TOI that the murder was committed in a fit of rage. “The couple fought frequently over money since the last couple of months. An argument had broken out between the two in the early hours of August 16 which led Imran to strangle her to death. He then headed for their home in Noida, picked up his belongings and left for his home in Ghaziabad,” Pincha said.
According to police, Imran had shifted with the woman at a society in Greater Noida’s Shahberi area around a year ago. He had introduced himself to people in the society as ‘Rishabh.’While the woman worked at a real estate firm, Imran was a scrap dealer from Patel Nagar area of Ghaziabad. Both were divorced.
The couple had left for Nainital on August 14, with another couple from the same building, to celebrate the woman’s birthday on August 15. During check-in at the hotel, the woman’s ID was used for the room they shared, so the discrepancy regarding Imran’s name wasn’t noticed then. His real identity came to light when police and forensic teams searching the murder site found Imran’s ID, leading to the suspicion that Imran was Rishabh’s real name. “The woman even had a tattoo of the name Imran,” Pincha said.
