Overview
- Authorities say the victim was taken to a field and killed on May 16 before being buried in an agricultural plot on the outskirts of a village.
- The victim’s wife filed a missing‑person report within days of the killing, a move police say was meant to mislead investigators.
- Police say analysis of phone call data prompted the detention of Ghani/Ghaini Pandari, who allegedly confessed and identified the burial location.
- Three people — the wife Kalpana, Pandari and Pandari’s brother Vittal — were arrested, produced before a magistrate and sent to judicial remand while a postmortem is arranged.
- The couple married in 2012 and had two young daughters; reporting notes differences on some details such as the use of a JCB to dig the pit and investigators are continuing forensic work and inquiries into other possible accomplices.