Delhi Police find knife Army Major Nikhil Handa allegedly used to kill Shailza Dwivedi

The knife allegedly used by Indian Army Major Nikhil Handa to murder his fellow officer's wife Shailza Dwivedi was recovered on Thursday. This comes two days after the police clarified that the weapon they earlier had in their custody wasn’t the one used by the accused.

West Delhi police DCP Vijay Kumar had said, "The weapon that we have in our custody is not the weapon with which Shailaja was killed."

The Delhi Police had, on Wednesday, said Handa was repeatedly giving them "misleading information". A Delhi Court had recently sent the major to a four-day custody.

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Kumar had said that Handa had met his brother after the incident and they travelled from CR Park to Akshardham in the former's car, PTI reported.

His brother told the police that Handa had said he was involved in a road accident and did not mention to him about the killing of the woman, the officer said.

The 40-year-old accused was arrested from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday for killing the woman. Police had said that he was "obsessed" with her.

Another police officer had claimed that the woman and the accused had an affair, PTI reported. Major Handa, who is married with two kids, knew the women and her husband, also a Major in the Army, since 2015, when they both were posted in Nagaland, the DCP had said.

The woman's husband had spotted Major Handa in the CCTV footage of the hospital, where his wife had gone for a physiotherapy session and went missing from there and had told the police that he suspected him.

Dwivedi was found with her throat slit near the Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment area on June 23.

Initially, the police was informed that a woman had died in an accident. Later, when they inspected the body, it was found that her throat was slit.

The accused had allegedly run his car over her face and the body in order to make the incident appear as an accident.