Overview
- The 24-year-old's naked, partially decomposed body was found in her classmate’s locked rented room in Indore after neighbours reported a foul smell.
- Preliminary examination noted rope marks indicating possible strangulation, with the definitive cause pending post-mortem.
- The victim’s family alleges the suspect used her phone to share an explicit video to a college WhatsApp group and had been blackmailing her for money.
- A missing-person report was filed on February 11 after she failed to return home the previous night.
- Indore and Mumbai police detained prime suspect Piyush Dhamnodia in Mumbai, and questioning and forensic analysis are ongoing.