Overview
- Police have arrested Chandrika Chaudhary’s uncle Shivram Darga Patel and cousin Naran Sava Patel in connection with her death.
- Investigators allege the 18-year-old NEET qualifier was given sedatives, strangled and then hanged to mimic a suicide.
- Authorities cited the absence of a medical examination, a hurried cremation and exclusion of close relatives as signs of a cover-up.
- A manhunt is under way for Chandrika’s father, Sendha Darga Patel, who remains missing.
- The family has abandoned their ancestral home in Danitya village as police expand their probe into the alleged honour killing.