Dhillon also wrote a suicide note to cook up the story of a suicide pact. | Photo Credit: Thinkstock

Gurugram: A 76-year-old man killed his 72-year-old wife to silence her before she could inform the police that her husband might have murdered a businessman. The deceased was identified as Gurmehar Kaur and the accused was named Harnek Singh Dhillon, residents of Gurugram. During the investigation, Harnek tried to mislead the police by cooking up a theory of a ‘suicide pact’.

According to a report in Hindustan Times, the police arrested Dhillon on Wednesday, four days after Gurmehar's death, for murdering his wife. He was arrested from his residence at DLF phase 2, Gurugram. After allegedly murdering Gurmehar, Dhillon called up his relatives and told them that Gurmehar has attempted suicide. police rushed Gurmehar to a local hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.

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It was reported in NDTV that the accused, Harnek Singh, had taken a loan Rs 40 lakh from Jaskaran Singh but refused to pay him back. According to Subhash Bokan, the public relations officer of Gurgaon Police, the accused, along with his wife, chopped Jaskaran's body into 24 to 25 pieces, stuffed it into two plastic bags and left for their hometown Ludhiana. However, soon after the crime was committed, his wife started repenting and wanted him to come clean to the police.

Dhillon told police that he murdered Jaskaran Singh as he owed him money during the course of the probe. During the police investigation, Dhillon told police that Gurmehar had been asking her to confess murdering Jaskaran and they also had several arguments over the issue. On October 19, they again had an altercation following which Dhillon slit Gurmehar's throat in a fit of rage.

Vishnu Prasad, SHO of the DLF Phase-2 police station, told the national daily that Dhillon also wrote a suicide note to cook up the story of a suicide pact.

