Overview
- Investigators exhumed the bodies on November 16 in the presence of an executive magistrate, forensic experts and panch witnesses, and relatives identified them as Nayana and her two children.
- The suspect is Assistant Conservator of Forests Shailesh Khambhla, who filed a missing-person complaint on November 7 reporting the trio missing since November 6.
- Police said Khambhla drew suspicion over inconsistencies in his statements and call records linking him to a junior officer who allegedly arranged digging behind the quarters.
- According to police, pits were dug days before the disappearance and later covered, and Khambhla has admitted to the killings and was booked on charges including murder and destruction of evidence.
- Officials said the victims lived in Surat and were in Bhavnagar for school holidays, which explains their stay in the government quarters.