Pune Police arrests couple for murdering relative over property dispute

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], September 1 : The Crime branch unit of Pune city police have arrested a 51-year-old man and his wife for allegedly killing and mutilating the body of his sister before disposing it in a river.
According to Joint Commissioner of Pune Police, Ranjan Kumar Sharma , the Pune Police have solved the gruesome murder case of a woman whose decapitated body was found in the Mutha river bed in Kharadi last week.
The victim, identified as 48-year-old Sakina Khan, was killed over a dispute regarding room ownership with her own brother in a Shivaji Nagar area of Pune city .
Joint Commissioner of Police, Ranjankumar Sharma also, revealed that the police recovered Sakina's torso from the Mutha riverbed on Monday. The limbless and headless body was found without clothes, and the accused had dismembered it to destroy evidence before disposing of it in the river. Sakina was stragulated before cutting in to peices.
Investigations led to the detention of Sakina's brother, Ashfaq Khan, and his wife Hamida Khan. Interrogation revealed that repeated disputes over room ownership led to Sakina's strangulation. To destroy evidence, the duo decapitated and dismembered her body.
Pune Police official also informed that to investigate the case, Pune city police has gone through atleast 200 missing complaints and checked several CCTV footages. A drone surveillance were also deployed at the banks of Mutha river to look for other parts of the body on the basis a source based information about the missing of Sakina from Shivaji Nagar area. Pune police detained the duo and upon interrogation, both the accused confessed to the crime.
Chandannagar police had initially filed a case under Sections 103 (murder) and 238 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The accused are currently in police custody, and further investigation is underway.