Overview

• Naushad Ahmed, 38, was murdered and dismembered on April 19 in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, after returning from Dubai 10 days earlier.
• Police identified Ahmed's body using an airline baggage tag, a foreign SIM card, and other forensic evidence from the trolley bag where his remains were found.
• Razia Sultana, the victim's wife, confessed to the crime and was arrested; her nephew and lover, Roman, and his accomplice, Himanshu, remain at large.
• Investigators recovered the murder weapons—an axe, a chopper, and a pestle—used in the crime, which was motivated by the affair between Sultana and Roman.
• The case highlights a troubling pattern of intimate-partner and intra-family violence in Uttar Pradesh, with several recent high-profile murders involving similar concealment tactics.