Avadhootkumar S., 47, is to be tried in absentia over the alleged killing of his 37-year-old wife at their home in The Hague in 2019. The decision emerged at a preliminary hearing. He is accused of strangling her and concealing her body in a refrigerator at the home on Frambozenstraat. One report said he then fled to India with their two 13-year-old children.