Overview
- Yuvraj Singh Manchanda left a Lajpat Nagar restaurant saying he would attend a meeting in Gurugram and was reported missing by his family after several days of no contact.
- Investigators learned that an unidentified body recovered from a Gurugram drain on Sept 10 matched photographs and clothing shown to the family and was identified as Manchanda.
- Delhi Police used call records, internet logs and CCTV to trace former colleague Anya Vats and her associate Sanyam Sachdeva to Uttarakhand and then arrested them; both have been remanded to five days of police custody.
- Police say the two accused allegedly admitted involvement and disposing of the body and that a dispute over financial transactions is a preliminary motive while forensic tests and location examinations continue.
- The family alleges the body was cremated quickly on Sept 14 and was not uploaded to ZIPNET, the national database for unidentified bodies, a claim reported but not independently verified by police; the family has sought access to post-mortem and investigatory records.