Overview
- Deepshikha Sharma, 48, was found late December 17 stuffed in a red suitcase inside her rented flat at Aura Chimera after going to collect about five months of unpaid rent.
- Tenants Ajay and Aakriti Gupta were arrested, an FIR was filed for murder and destruction of evidence, and a court remanded them to 14 days’ judicial custody.
- The autopsy report released Friday lists severe head injury and subsequent blood loss as the cause of death and notes evidence of strangulation, with the body recovered intact.
- Police say the couple confessed during interrogation, describing a confrontation in which a pressure cooker was used to strike the victim and a dupatta was used to strangle her, while forensic, CCTV and phone-record checks continue.
- The domestic help’s suspicion and CCTV showing the victim entering but not leaving the flat led to the body’s recovery and foiled an alleged plan to dispose of the suitcase.