Killed Priya to unite with `second wife`, confesses Delhi restaurateur

`He wanted to make it look like the lender killed his wife. Pankaj Mehra also has a second wife,` said the police

NEW DELHI: Chilling details have emerged in the murder mystery of 34-year-old Delhi woman, who was shot dead in west Delhi on Wednesday, reportedly in front of her two-year-old son.

Priya Mehra's husband, Pankaj Mehra – a Delhi-based restaurateur – has confessed to killing in order to with another woman Aisha. 

Priya died of two bullet injuries in the early hours of Wednesday. At the time, Pankaj told police that she was shot by unknown assailants while they were travelling with their toddler in a car in Shalimar Bagh. 

"He wanted to make it look like a lender killed his wife. Pankaj also has a second wife," Deputy Commissioner of Police Milind Mahadeo Dumbere told news agency IANS.

The businessman had claimed that he was unable to pay back money borrowed from a man and claimed the lender was behind the murder.

Dumbere said that Pankaj admitted that he murdered his wife during interrogation.

"On sustained interrogation, the husband Pankaj has finally confessed to killing his wife Priya. He is being taken along with a team to recover the weapon," he said.

The police further said that their two-year-old son might have been present at the time of the murder, but asleep in the car.

According to reports, Pankaj regularly fought with his Priya over his extra-marital affair with Aisha.