Overview
- A colleague searching for Soni after she missed work found her body in a bed box at the suspect’s rented room in IMT Manesar, according to police.
- Investigators said she was strangled and her head was tied inside a plastic bag before the body was concealed.
- Police named Devesh, her maternal cousin from Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh who had recently moved into a nearby room seeking work, as the prime suspect and said he fled.
- An FIR for murder was filed at IMT Manesar police station as crime-branch and forensic teams collected evidence and sent the body for autopsy.
- The family alleged the cousin had harassed her for about four years, and officers said they will hand over the body after the post-mortem as they probe motive.