Overview
- Relatives who visited the locked Meerut house noticed a strong stench and alerted police, who found teacher Priyanka Biswas’s remains lying on a bed.
- Officers detained her father, Uday Bhanu Biswas, 76, for questioning over the death and why the body was left inside the home for months.
- Investigators suspect he kept the body in the house and used perfume to hide the odor, and officers noted many perfume bottles and a room filled with garbage.
- The remains have been sent for a post-mortem, and police say any charges will hinge on the cause of death and the reason the body was not cremated or reported.
- Heavy decomposition can limit what autopsies reveal, a problem seen in a 2025 Indore case where relatives found two bodies weeks after death.