Ghaziabad: Woman kills partner, packs body in suitcase | India News

Preeti wanted to dump the suitcase with Feroz’s (inset) body in a train

GHAZIABAD: Lugging a large suitcase, a 32-year-old woman had begun walking in the direction of the railway station on Monday night.
But the only transport she found was a vehicle with a police patrol team that stopped by, concerned for her safety and insistent she take a ride with them. She tried her best to fend off the polite cops but fumbled with her answers. There was a body in the bag and she wanted to dump it on a train. But the cops, growing suspicious by the minute, found it.
Preeti Sharma allegedly slit the throat of Feroz Salmani23, her live-in partner, in a fit of rage after the two had an argument over the weekend. Police said she stored the body in her fridge for a day and planned to leave the suitcase on a train. During interrogation, she told the cops that Salmani, a hair stylist in Delhi, had repeatedly made “excuses” when she said she wanted to get married. The two lived in Tulsi Niketan area of Tila Mor in Ghaziabad. Preeti was booked under Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the Indian Penal Code. She was sent to judicial custody after being produced before a court on Monday.
Body in suitcase: Woman nabbed after 50m chase
Preeti Sharma, the 32-year-old woman arrested for allegedly killing her live-in partner, told police that she had separated from her husband in 2017 and started living in Tulsi Niketan area of Tila Mor soon after. She met Salmani, who belonged to Sambhal in UP, after the two got in touch on social media in 2018. He moved in with her the same year.
On Saturday night, a heated argument broke out between the two after she brought up the topic of marriage. “She slit Salmani’s throat with a razor after he apparently said: ‘Jo apne pati ki nahi huyi, who kiski hogi’,” said Bhuvneshwar Kumar, SHO at Tila Mor police station, citing her interrogation. “After killing Salmani, she put his body in the fridge, and on Sunday, visited Seelampur in Delhi to purchase a large suitcase,” the SHO said.
Around 2am on Monday, the patrol team spotted Preeti on a road in Tulsi Niketan. “The team asked her where she wanted to go. After she told them she had to catch a train from Ghaziabad railway station, they offered to drop her there, but she refused. They saw her walk another 200 metres, unable to find an autorickshaw to go to the station. They told her they could help her, but she refused again,” said Bhuvneshwar Kumar, SHO at Tila Mor police station.
The cops then started asking her questions about the train she needed to catch. “She was unable to give details about the train but said it was supposed to leave the station at 4am. She also didn’t have a ticket on her and told police that a friend had booked it online,” the SHO said. Suspicious by now, the police team checked her suitcase and found Salmani’s body stuffed inside it. Preeti tried to flee but was caught after a 50-metre chase, Kumar said.