New Delhi:  An Indian Army Major Nikhil Handa has been detained from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh for his alleged involvement in the killing of another Army Major's wife in west Delhi yesterday, a senior officer said.

An officer, privy to the probe, said that the accused has been detained and is being questioned.

The woman's body was found with her throat slit near the Brar Square + in the Delhi Cantonment area yesterday.

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, they said.

Later, when he came back to pick her up, he could not find her and learnt that she did not attend her scheduled physiotherapy session.