Overview
- Crime branch officers exhumed bones and tissue from under a cemented kitchen platform in a locked Sarkhej house, nearly a year after the man vanished.
- The victim was identified by police as Mohammad Israel Akbarali Ansari, known as Sameer Bihari, a mason from Bihar who had lived there with his wife and two children.
- Investigators allege the wife, Ruby, plotted the killing with her alleged lover Imran Vaghela and two associates, slitting the victim’s throat, dismembering the body, and sealing the grave with tiles.
- Imran was arrested following an alleged confession that led police to the burial site, and an FIR citing murder, conspiracy, and destruction of evidence has been registered.
- Forensic and DNA testing of the recovered remains is underway, and reports differ on whether Ruby and two alleged accomplices have been arrested or remain wanted as the probe continues.