Overview

• On June 2, Sangeeta allegedly laced temple prasad with poison during a visit to Vibhuti Nath Temple and, with her lover Anil Shukla’s help, pushed her husband off a bridge into the Rapti River.
• After filing a missing person report on June 5 claiming Kannan had vanished, Sangeeta’s narrative unraveled following a complaint from his brother and analysis of her phone locations.
• Investigators recovered Kannan’s skeletal remains from the Rapti River on June 10 and combined mobile data with testimony from the couple’s 12-year-old son to reconstruct the crime.
• Under rigorous questioning, Sangeeta admitted to a five-year affair with 27-year-old Anil Shukla and confessed to plotting the murder to remove her husband.
• Both suspects were arrested on June 11 by Siddharthnagar police, charged with abduction and murder, and remanded in jail pending trial.