NEW DELHI: Meenu Jain, an IndiGo pilot’s 52-year-old wife who was found dead at her Dwarka home last Thursday, was murdered by a debt-ridden man from Jaipur who had befriended her through a social media application, police said on Tuesday after they brought the alleged killer to the capital.Dinesh Dixit, 56, was nabbed on Monday afternoon by a 20-member police team who outwitted him by tracking his electronic trail despite his efforts to cover his tracks.According to police, Dixit, a real estate businessman, had met Jain six months ago and had been often driving to Delhi from Jaipur to meet her at her house. Dixit had created multiple accounts on social media apps to befriend women by posing as a rich businessman.DCP Anto Alphonse said that Dixit was in heavy debt after losing a huge amount of money on IPL betting. Under pressure to return the money to bookies, he hatched a sinister plot to murder and rob Jain.Cops create electronic route to nail killer of pilot’s wifeTwo weeks ago, Dixit discovered that Jain had kept a lot of cash and diamond jewellery in her house and began to give final shape to his plans.During interrogation, he revealed that he had procured a fake numberplate from a car accessory shop for his Maruti Swift Dzire. The car, which is registered under his son’s name, had a registration number RJ-14YC-2774. He got it changed to DL-07AW-8973 before heading to Delhi on Thursday noon.He switched off his phone in Jaipur and switched on a newly procured phone to communicate with Jain. He reached the Air Force Naval Officer Enclave in Dwarka’s sector 7 at 2.20pm. He avoided getting his details noted down at the main gate by calling up Jain. On Jain’s instructions, the security guard let Dixit into the society without noting down his details, police said.Dixit and Jain went out of the society at 8.45pm — the car was captured on a CCTV camera — and returned at 9.15pm after buying some snacks from the local market. Later in the night, Dixit got the woman intoxicated and then tried to take the cash and jewellery kept in the house.When Jain tried to resist, the accused smothered the woman with towels and pillow in her bedroom around 2.30am. The accused stayed in the house till dawn and finally left at 5.21am, as the CCTV showed. Apart from cash and valuables worth Rs 50 lakh, he also took away Jain’s two mobile phones with him after switching them off.The murder was discovered around 7.45am by Jain’s father and brother who came to check on her. A special team was formed under ACP Rajender Singh.When the team spotted the suspect’s car in the CCTV footage and enquired about it, the number came as a fake. They then started checking footage of the adjoining roads and toll plazas.An electronic route was prepared and the car was spotted at tolls at Kherki Daula and Shahjahanpur which indicated that the suspect went towards Jaipur.After zeroing in on the make of the car, the investigating teams checked Google Map records of Jain’s phone. The teams checked the social media accounts of the woman and her phone call records to search for calls made to contacts in Rajasthan circle.One of the suspect’s numbers contacted by Jain in the past was scanned for details and the cops then reached the Jaipur address using its details. Dixit’s number matched with the details available with the transport office. The cops then reached Sikar, where Dixit’s family lived, and then finally landed up at his Jaipur house.They found the car parked near his house. The dent on the car matched with the dent seen on the suspect’s car in the CCTV. Cops laid a trap around the car and nabbed Dixit when he came to drive it. The looted money has been recovered and Dixit is being interrogated in police remand.