Delhi cook chops his wife into pieces, arrested

New Delhi: In a horrifying incident, a 40-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife and then chopping her body into parts, before dumping it at a secluded spot near his residence in south Delhi's Fatehpur Beri area.

The accused, Gulbuddin, is a cook by profession.

He had married another woman in Assam, where he had lived for a while, and wanted to get rid of his first wife Phullu Begum, a police official said.

It is reported that the body was found in a decomposed state and when Gulbuddin was subjected to sustained interrogation, he broke down and confessed before the police.