Overview
- A postmortem at Gondal Civil Hospital found marks of strangulation and determined strangulation as the cause of death, contradicting the family's claim that he died by acid suicide.
- The victim's wife filed a formal complaint after the autopsy, and Gondal Taluka police registered a murder case under BNS provisions that include murder and causing grievous hurt by acid.
- Investigators allege the parents forced the man to drink acid during a dispute over his drinking and then strangled him, and they say the couple were arrested and produced before a court.
- Police say they seized an acid bottle, the accused's clothing and a bedsheet stained with the victim's vomit, and that the accused admitted involvement during questioning; reports give the fatal incident as occurring on June 30.
- The case is under active investigation with forensic evidence being examined and local claims about the handling of the postmortem also being probed, and the charges may shape enforcement of acid and domestic-violence laws in the area.