3 min readNew DelhiJun 20, 2026 02:15 AM IST A day after a dermatologist allegedly killed his house help by battering her with a bat and then stabbing her with a knife in South Delhi’s upscale Kailash Hills, his wife Tina on Thursday told the police that she never sensed that he would be so “triggered” by her decision of not firing the 45-year-old victim. “Tina said Dr Manish Gupta had asked her to fire the house help. She refused, but Manish never made a fuss about it. He never said anything to her (Meena) either. Manish felt Meena was not cleaning the house properly. He had been requesting his wife to fire her for two to three years,” said a senior police officer. Police said that the 54-year-old accused, who was also on antidepressants, was arrested and sent to two-day police custody by a Delhi court. Police are trying to find out if there is any other history of violence associated with the doctor, even though Tina claimed that he has always been “mild-mannered” …