Overview
- The 22-year-old woman, identified as Madhu, vanished on May 21 and police found her decomposing body in a locked rented-room bathroom near Manesar bus stand several days later.
- Police say a post-mortem was completed and preliminary forensics indicate a gunshot injury to the head and a cloth stuffed in her mouth, and two empty 7.65mm cartridges were recovered from the scene.
- Madhu’s husband, Ankit Bhagat, and his long-term live-in partner have been formally booked for murder and are reported to be absconding while police conduct raids to locate them.
- Family members allege in‑laws initially told them Madhu had run away with jewellery and that Ankit had a prior relationship and children, facts investigators are probing as possible motive or concealment.
- Investigators are using CCTV, neighbour statements, building-owner testimony and ballistic forensics next, and the recovered cartridges will be central to linking any weapon to the suspects and establishing timing and cause of death.