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Indian techie to spend life in jail for murdering wife

He had chopped up her body into 70 pieces and kept them in a freezer

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Indian techie to spend life in jail for murdering wife

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NEW DELHI (Taiwan News) -- A software engineer, Rajesh Gulati, who had cut his wife into 70 pieces and stored them in a freezer, seven years ago, has been sentenced to life in jail. Gulati, then 37, smothered his 36-year-old wife, Anuparna, and then used an electric saw to chop up her body in their two-room rented house. The couple had four-year-old twins at the time of the crime.

Gulati and Anuparna had moved to the U.S. after getting married in 1999. They returned to India in 2008, after which their relationship deteriorated. The couple would often fight over Anuparna's accusation of Gulati having an extramarital affair.

On the night of the crime, after another argument, Gulati slapped his wife, following which she hit her head on the wall and fell unconscious. Scared she would wake up and file a police complaint, Gulati stuffed her nose and mouth with cotton and smothered her with a pillow. Gulati then purchased an electric saw and chopped up her body into 70 pieces. He then put the parts in polythene bags and kept in a deep freezer which also he bought subsequent to the murder. He then disposed of the polythene bags one at a time, at various locations on the outskirts of the city.

The techie did this for two months until one day Anuparna's brother Sujan Kumar Pradhan landed up at his doorstep having not heard from his sister in a long time. Pradhan became suspicious when Gulati refused to let him enter the house.

Pradhan then filed a missing person complaint after which police raided Gulati house and recovered several bags with Anapurna's body parts, including her head, from the freezer.