Overview
- Deputy Commissioner of Police Kuldeep Gunawat said Mukesh Patel was detained by police and a Special Operations Group on Monday and confessed during interrogation.
- Following his statement, teams recovered the bodies of Ram Singh, Sadhana, and Aastha from a well about 200 meters from the family home that had been concealed with straw.
- Investigators seized an axe identified as the suspected murder weapon, along with a country-made pistol and two cartridges from the accused.
- An FIR has been registered at the Mauaima police station, the bodies have been sent for postmortem, and forensic examinations are underway.
- Police link the killings to a property dispute after Ram Singh transferred a house and roughly four bighas of land to younger son Mukund, who originally filed the missing-persons complaint.