Six months after he went missing, police recovered the skull and bone fragments of a 22-year-old man in a septic tank, unraveling a tale of love, deception and murder in Madhya Pradesh.
The police found the main accused by tracking his mobile phone. (Representative picture)The incident took place in the state’s Deoria town, where Prince Valmiki, a resident of Sagar district, had disappeared without a trace. On August 20, his wife reported that the husband was missing, and despite police efforts, no leads were found, and the case was quietly shelved, NDTV reported.
However, the family filed a lawsuit claiming that Prince’s disappearance was not an accident.
The breakthrough came when police dug up a septic tank behind the accused’s house and recovered a skull and bone fragments.
The accused was traced after the police tracked his mobile phone in Narsinghpur. The accused, identified as Shoaib, confessed to drugging and killing Yuvraj over the love affair.
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Love, deception and murderWhen the police finally crack the missing case and trace the victim, the story of the wife’s relationship with the main accused emerges.
According to the police, accused Shoaib had an affair with Tulsi before marriage.
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After a month of marriage, Tulsi’s behavior changed and the couple often fought at home. Soon, they move to Deuri and stay at Tulsi’s parents’ house.
After moving to Deori, Shoaib befriended Yuvraj and drugged him. Shoaib, who himself is intoxicated, was meeting Tulsi secretly. Tensions between them rise when Prince discovers.
Police told NDTV that Shoaib confessed to drugging Prince and then killing him. He allegedly dumped Prince’s body in a septic tank behind his home and covered it with garbage.
For about a month, Shoaib observed the site and sprinkled salt over the body to speed up the decomposition process. When police excavated the tank, they found a human body with a skull and other skeletal remains, the report said.
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Meanwhile, Tulsi and Shoaib fled to Gujarat and were living together.
Yuvraj’s brother said the family was suspicious of his death and never believed it was an accident. “We never accepted that he was missing. We pushed for an investigation,” he said.
