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New Delhi:A week after the body of a 36-year-old Swiss woman was found behind a school in West Delhis Tilak Nagar area, police are struggling to establish a murder motive..
On Saturday, a day after the body of the woman, believed to be named Nina Berger, was found with her limbs chained, the policearrested33-year-old gemstone dealer Gurpreet Singh from his Janakpuri residence...
So far, police only have Singhs custodial confession, and recoveries like a phone, laptop and a DSLR suspected to belong to Berger.They have, however, dismissed human trafficking as a motive behind the murder after certain media reports claimed so...
Singhs presence in the hotels has also not been ascertained so far on the basis of human intelligence and technical evidence.. Sources said that Singh, who has deleted all his chats with Berger, stated during interrogation that he called her to India for a vacation and killed her in the heat of the moment...
Meanwhile, even as media reports said that the Swiss embassy has ascertained that the deceased is indeed Berger, senior police officers claimed that they are still awaiting official communications from the embassy via due process...
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