Overview

• Geeta Nirmalkar and Lekhram Nishad were arrested by Dondi Lohara police and remanded to judicial custody over the alleged killing of Geeta’s 60-year-old father-in-law, Manohar Nirmalkar.
• Investigators allege the pair used electrician gloves and a metal rod connected to a power source to deliver electric shocks while he slept.
• The suspects applied turmeric and rose water to the victim’s wounds and falsely claimed he died from a drunken bicycle fall.
• Villagers spotted unusual injury marks during funeral preparations and alerted authorities, prompting a forensic examination.
• The forensic team’s post-mortem report confirmed electrocution as the cause of death and investigators are continuing to probe the conspiracy.