Overview

• Tabassum was arrested by Chharra police in Aligarh on August 4 following a missing-person report filed by her family two days earlier.
• A post-mortem revealed that her husband’s hands were bound, he was stabbed in the abdomen, doused with acid and set ablaze to prevent identification.
• Authorities recovered his charred remains near an abandoned brick kiln in Kasganj district, where they lay undiscovered for four days as decomposition complicated identification.
• Investigators have named Danish as her alleged accomplice and are conducting coordinated raids to apprehend him and other suspected family members.
• The case adds to a string of intimate-partner homicides in Uttar Pradesh, prompting law enforcement to lean more heavily on forensic analysis and digital probes.