Overview

• Sahiba Bano and two associates, including Kushal, were arrested on June 29 and charged with murdering 45-year-old Indra Kumar Tiwari to claim his 18-acre property.
• Police say the trio staged a fake wedding in Gorakhpur on June 5, drugged the victim with sleeping pills, then stabbed him to death and dumped his body in Kushinagar on June 6.
• Authorities recovered forged identity documents and wedding photographs that the suspects planned to use to pose as the victim’s widow and seize his land.
• Investigators are analyzing call records, CCTV footage, mobile forensics and Aadhaar data in an inter-state operation to identify remaining conspirators.
• The case highlights how viral social media disclosures can be exploited for property-driven intimate partner homicides and underscores evolving forensic and police coordination methods.