A suspected suicide in Rajkot, Gujarat, turned into a murder case after a post-mortem revealed a 23-year-old man was forced to drink acid and strangled.
Police recovered a rope, tablets, alcohol bottles and a handwritten note from the locked room. Investigators examine murder, hanging and poisoning as possible causes pending post-mortem and forensic findings and Ali’s statement after recovery.
Police said preliminary investigations suggest that she may have taken the extreme step due to mental distress related to her engagement to a madrasa teacher.
Zafar's son, Badsha, said, "The family was a little scared that cows couldn't be slaughtered this year during Eid. My mother did not want to make any animal sacrifice."