Overview
- Neighbours alerted police to a foul smell and officers broke open a locked South Malaka house to find three decomposing bodies, with a fourth body later recovered from an attached shop.
- Police say their reconstruction shows Abhishek Vaishya conspired with a friend to murder his parents and sister to steal jewellery and that the friend, identified as Sunny Gupta, then killed Abhishek during a dispute over the loot.
- Authorities arrested Sunny Gupta, recovered an iron pipe the police allege was used in the attacks, and seized more than 1 kilogram of gold and several hundred grams of silver from the premises.
- A handwritten cardboard message blaming ‘Bunty-Babli’ and a daughter-in-law was found at the scene and has been sent for handwriting and forensic tests to determine whether it was a dying declaration or a planted diversion.
- Forensic verification of post-mortems, the handwriting analysis, and checks on other family members with past criminal cases remain under way, and investigators are reviewing more than 80 CCTV feeds to confirm the timeline of events, which police say began on May 31.