Overview
- Neighbours in Neelkanth Society alerted police to a foul smell and officers broke into a locked flat where they found a highly decomposed male body concealed in the bathroom.
- The deceased has been reported in multiple accounts as 37-year-old Hamidullah Islam and the body was recovered wrapped inside a sack or drum and described by investigators as dismembered.
- The flat owner received a voice message in which the tenant said she had killed the man and alleged he planned to sell her into a prostitution racket; police say they are treating the message as a lead and are verifying its contents.
- Manpada police have registered a murder FIR naming the woman and her husband as accused and have dispatched special teams, including units sent to Kolkata, to trace and arrest the absconding couple.
- Crime-scene forensics and a post-mortem at Rukminibai Hospital are pending and authorities say those results, along with CCTV and witness statements, will establish the sequence, cause and motive of the killing.