Overview

• Police allege 47-year-old painter Shabab Ali killed his 30-year-old wife on August 2 by giving her sleeping pills and weedicide after suspecting infidelity.
• A female friend filed a missing-person complaint on August 10, leading Mehrauli police to register a kidnapping case.
• Technical surveillance and CCTV showed Ali and his associates transporting the woman in a car while she appeared unconscious.
• Ali confessed during questioning, and with SDM approval officers exhumed the body on August 15 from the Chandanholla graveyard for forensic examination.
• Three men—Ali, Tanveer Khan (25) and Shahrukh Khan (28)—have been arrested, the car was recovered from Shahrukh, and police say one more accused remains at large.