Overview

• Neighbours reported a foul smell on August 17 in Adarsh Colony, where police found Hansram’s decomposing body sealed in a blue plastic drum on the rooftop.
• Investigators say his throat was cut and salt had been applied to hasten decomposition, with post-mortem and FSL examinations continuing.
• Police detained the wife, Sunita (also reported as Laxmi), and Jitendra Sharma on August 18 at a brick kiln in Alwada, and say both confessed during questioning.
• The couple’s eight-year-old son told officers he saw the body placed in the drum after a night of drinking and violence at home, making him a key witness.
• Officers allege the drum was borrowed from Jitendra’s mother about a week earlier, indicating premeditation, and the three children have been handed to their paternal grandfather.