Overview

• Police detained Sahiba Bano and two accomplices, including Kushal, for allegedly staging a fake wedding and stabbing 45-year-old Indra Kumar Tiwari to death.
• Authorities recovered forged Aadhaar cards, wedding photographs and an affidavit intended to help claim Tiwari’s 18-acre property as his widow.
• Social media communications and digital forensics revealed that the victim was lured from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, to Gorakhpur under a false identity.
• Tiwari’s body, discovered on June 6 in a drain in Kushinagar’s Hata area, was identified weeks later after matching it to his missing person report.
• The inter-state investigation is finalizing charges of murder and fraud and investigators are pursuing other suspects still at large.