Overview
- Police say the 21-year-old woman filed a harassment complaint against hospital owner Devkant Uttam on May 19 and disappeared after a meeting arranged two days later.
- Investigators allege Uttam and his nephew Vivek Patel strangled the woman, moved her body by car via the Ganga Expressway and dumped it in Jahangirabad, Bulandshahr.
- Vivek Patel was detained at LLR Hospital with a gunshot wound and has allegedly confessed to the killing, while Uttam surrendered to Barra police on Wednesday and both are in custody.
- Bulandshahr authorities had earlier preserved a nose ring and DNA samples from a highly decomposed body recovered on May 25, and the family identified the nose ring leading to DNA matching now under way.
- Police have identified the vehicle they say was used, taken teams to Bulandshahr for a reconstruction and are probing motive and possible other participants while forensic tests continue.