Overview
- Police say the teenage girl was reported missing after May 29 and investigators now allege she was killed in her rented home and her body taken away in a suitcase.
- Authorities reviewed CCTV after the mother's initial footage proved to show a different person and later spotted a man riding a motorcycle with a suitcase, which led them to detain the mother's partner.
- The detained man allegedly confessed to strangling the girl, placing her in a suitcase, tying it to his motorcycle and setting it on fire in a forest near Khuralgarh in Hoshiarpur district.
- Forensic teams recovered partially burnt, charred skeletal remains from the forest and have sent them for laboratory examination to confirm identity and cause of death.
- The accused has been arrested and remanded for questioning while police investigate motive, timing and digital evidence and reporting shows minor discrepancies in reported ages and an alias for the suspect.