Overview
- Police say Vishal Salvi killed his wife, Shilpa Salvi, on April 20 and hid her body in a wooden box at his former residence in Salabatpura.
- The case began as a missing report filed by the husband, then shifted when their minor son found a handwritten note that described the crime and the body’s location.
- Officers broke into the locked, dilapidated house and recovered the decomposed body from a box covered with raw cement, a method investigators say was used to suppress odor.
- Salvi is in custody after being traced on the outskirts of Surat, and an FIR for murder was registered on a complaint by Shilpa’s father, Pradip Kosta.
- Investigators are probing suspected domestic discord tied to Salvi’s unemployment and alleged suspicions of an affair, while forensic teams conduct a post-mortem and evidence checks.