Overview
- Police say Kiran, 32, and her sister Kashish, 21, were arrested in late June after confessing to killing Kiran’s live‑in partner, Zakir.
- Officers say the women struck Zakir on the head, strangled him with a cloth, then staged the scene as a suicide by hanging the body from a ceiling fan.
- Investigators recovered a stick and the cloth alleged to be the murder weapon, noted bent fan blades at the scene, and the postmortem found strangulation and a head injury.
- Kiran told police she suspected Zakir of having wrong intentions toward her 13‑year‑old daughter and said they planned the killing about 20 days before June 23.
- An FIR under murder and common‑intention provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was filed at Tronica City police station and the criminal investigation is ongoing.