India, June 20 -- A Delhi court sent dermatologist Manish Gupta to two days' police custody on Friday as investigators said they would question his treating doctors after his family revealed he had been on antidepressants for around a decade.

Gupta, 50, allegedly bludgeoned his domestic worker Meena Haldar, 45, with a cricket bat on the terrace of his Mount Kailash home on Thursday morning before stabbing her in the neck, then walked downstairs and waited in blood-stained clothes to surrender to police, officials said.

His wife and son have reportedly told investigators that Gupta had been receiving treatment for mental health problems and had been taking antidepressants for the last decade. Police said they were still verifying his med...