Overview
- Police forced entry to the couple’s Adhartal-area home after landlords reported a foul smell and found 35-year-old Neha Singh’s decomposed body with a scarf tied around her neck on Friday.
- Mayank Singh was found hanging in a vacant Vehicle Factory Jabalpur (VFJ) residential building the next day and a purported suicide note recovered from him said he was responsible for his wife’s death and accused her relatives.
- Post-mortem examinations have been completed for both bodies, separate unnatural-death cases have been registered, and investigators are awaiting forensic and electronic evidence to confirm the sequence and cause of deaths.
- The couple had married in December 2023 and Neha’s eight-year-old son, who has been left without parents, told police his parents argued on June 3 before Neha went missing.
- Police say they are probing other details reported by investigators, including an alleged earlier suicide attempt and a past police raid that strained the marriage, but officials call many aspects preliminary pending verification.