INDORE: The bizarre case of a ‘murdered’ woman coming back to life has taken a darker turn. For seven months, Jhabua Police had a DNA report that said the body they had found was not that of the woman who had gone missing, but did not present it in court until the defence brought it up in a bail plea last Dec, reports Karishma Kotwal.
The four men charge-sheeted for the gang rape and murder of the missing woman are still in jail remand. Police had paraded the four accused in public and held a press conference to announce they had cracked the case.
The woman had gone missing from her village in Mandsaur in Sept 2023. Shahrukh, the prime accused, and the others were arrested on Sept 22 that year. On Aug 29, 2024, police received the DNA report (No. 1686/2023) in the case that clearly said the decomposed body police had found was not a biological match to the parents of the missing woman.
Indore Range DIG Nimish Agarwal said, “It has come to the fore that the woman who was believed to be dead has returned. We will summon her to verify her identity. Her statements will be recorded, and a DNA test will be conducted to match her genetic profile with her parents.”
