'Slit throat with scissors': Gurgaon CA murders pregnant banker wife after tiff during long drive
Times of India
by SAT SINGHFebruary 18, 2026
The murder of a 27-year-old bank employee, found with her throat slit near Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district, was solved within 18 hours, with police arresting her husband — a chartered accountant from Hisar — as the prime accused.
Investigators said the accused killed his wife over repeated suspicions about her character and then attempted to pass it off as a robbery-cum-murder.
The victim, Mahak, worked with HDFC Bank in Gurgaon.
She was married to Anshul Dhawan, a chartered accountant and resident of Hisar’s Sector 14, on September 25, 2025, in an arranged marriage. The couple had been married for barely five months.
On Valentine’s Day (February 14), the couple visited Hisar and stayed with family.
The next evening, around 7 pm on February 15, they left Mahak’s parental home in Hansi for Gurugram. About four hours later, Anshul called the police, claiming unidentified attackers had intercepted their car near Pahsaur village in the Badli area of Jhajjar district, killed his wife, and fled.
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Originally published on Times of India on 2/18/2026