Overview
- Police in Manpada, Dombivli recovered a highly decomposed male body from a locked rented flat after neighbours reported a strong foul smell on Monday.
- The flat owner said the tenant's wife sent a voicemail admitting the killing, which prompted officers to force entry and find the body packed in a sack inside the bathroom.
- Investigators reported a washroom tap was left running and the crime scene was examined by forensic teams before the body was sent for post‑mortem at a government hospital.
- Manpada police registered an FIR under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for murder and dispatched teams to multiple locations, including Kolkata, to trace the couple who are reported absconding.
- Identification of the victim, the cause and exact time of death, and the motive remain under probe and forensic results and interstate coordination will be key to the next steps of the investigation.