New Delhi: A non-resident Indian has been arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport late on Saturday night as he was fleeing to India after allegedly murdering his wife in the US city of Houston.
Avtar Singh Grewal, 32, was arrested on his arrival by a Continental flight from New Jersey. An Interpol look out notice was issued against the man.
According to American Police he had killed his wife, 30-year-old Navneet kaur, late Thursday in her home in Arizona capital where she lived alone.
Kaur was seeking a divorce from Grewal, Phoenix police said. The two had split, and he was living in Vancouver, Canada.
Grewal, hailing from Punjab, was seen outside his wife's home on Thursday, police said. Police believe he flew from Canada to Phoenix.
When Kaur didn't show up for work on Friday morning, her co-workers went to her house to check on her and found blood and signs of a struggle. Investigators then found Kaur's body.
Police have not yet released how she was killed but that they have an initial idea and are waiting for the medical examiner to confirm, PTI quoted Detective Bob Rags dale, a Phoenix police spokesman as saying in the daily Arizona Republic.
After the incident, Grewal flew out of Phoenix to New Jersey on a one-way ticket, then purchased a one-way ticket to India.
PTI quoted police sources as saying that Interpol has been informed about his arrest. He was produced at the Patiala House court, which remanded him to a day's judicial custody.
The family of the deceased Kaur lives in neighbouring Gurgaon.
(With agency inputs)
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