Overview

• Investigators in Delhi tracked Pritam Prakash’s phone through Sonipat, leading to the arrests of his wife, Soniya, and her lover, Rohit, who admitted paying a relative to kill him.
• In Gurugram, police have detained Soni Devi, her lover Ravinder Kumar, two hired accomplices and a relative who dug the burial pit after their 13-year-old daughter uncovered videos of the affair.
• Both women filed false missing-person and rape complaints to mislead investigators before their murder plots unraveled.
• Police in Delhi plan to match DNA from the body recovered in Gannaur with relatives, while Gurugram officers are collecting CCTV, phone and forensic evidence.
• These cases exemplify an intimate-partner homicide pattern where perpetrators exploit online research, social media façades and legal loopholes before being exposed by digital traces and preserved DNA.