Overview
- The Ahmedabad Crime Branch registered an FIR on Friday after DNA testing confirmed skeletal remains as those of Farzana Dosu Radhanpuri.
- Police arrested brothers Shamshuddin and Iqbal Khedawala on charges of murder, destruction of evidence, and criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code.
- Investigators had exhumed bones on April 29 from an 18-foot-deep pit under a house in Qutubnagar, working under an Executive Magistrate with forensic teams on site.
- The Forensic Science Laboratory matched DNA from the bones with blood provided by Farzana’s brother in Mumbai and sister in Dholka, establishing her identity after decades.
- Police say evidence points to strangulation followed by a secret burial inside the property, and they add the inquiry was rekindled by tips linked to reported occult rituals at the house.