New Delhi, July 7 -- A 48-year-old man allegedly murdered his wife by bludgeoning her with a cooking pan at their residence in southwest Delhi's Gopal Nagar near Najafgarh before walking into a local police station in the early hours of Sunday and confessing to the crime, police said.

According to police, the man arrived at the Baba Haridas Nagar police station around 8am, approached the duty officer and said he had killed his 43-year-old wife at their home around midnight. A police team accompanied him to the house, where the woman's body was found.

It was shifted to a government hospital mortuary for autopsy, and her family members, who also live in Gopal Nagar, were informed.

Police detained the man and registered a murder case at t...