NEW DELHI: Avtar Grewal, 32, a Canada resident, has been arrested here on the basis of a US police international warrant for the murder of his wife, Navneet Kaur (31) in Phoenix, Arizona. The CBI detained him at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Saturday night as he was trying to flee to India.

The US Police had issued a ‘look-out circular’ (LOC) for Avtar Singh Grewal, a manager with a firm in Vancouver, Canada after his estranged wife Navneet Kaur was found dead on Friday at her home in Phoenix. The two had married in October 2005 in New Delhi, but had subsequently separated. Kaur lived alone in her house at Ahwatukee in the suburbs of Phoenix.

The girl’s family lives in Gurgaon. Police say Grewal was last seen outside his wife’s home around 10:30 pm — US time — on Thursday. It is believed that he flew from Canada to Phoenix. When Kaur didn’t show up for work on Friday morning, her co-workers went to her house to check on her and found blood, broken bottles and signs of a struggle, police said. Investigators then found Kaur’s body. According to the Arizona Republic daily, Kaur was seeking a divorce.