Overview

• A local man chasing a cricket ball on July 14 entered a locked Nampally house and discovered human skeletal remains on the kitchen floor.
• Police and a specialised CLUES forensic team broke open the door, collected samples and recovered a switched-off Nokia phone and demonetised currency notes.
• Technicians revived the phone to retrieve 84 missed calls from 2015 while obsolete banknotes found beneath a pillow corroborated a pre-2016 death.
• Ameer Khan’s siblings said they lost contact with him in 2015 and assumed he had relocated, leaving no missing person report filed for the solitary resident.
• Authorities have registered an unnatural death case, sent remains to the mortuary and FSL, and are interviewing relatives to determine the cause and exact timeline of death.