Gurgaon: The body of a 22-year-old woman — missing since May 21 — has been recovered from a locked bathroom at a private building in IMT Manesar.Following the recovery of the decomposed body, on Sunday, from the building situated at Kasan Khoh Road, police are investigating the role of Madhu’s husband — Ankit — as her family has alleged that he shot her dead, having “concealed” his first marriage and children from them.Police, who initially registered an abduction case, have now added murder sections in the FIR registered at Manesar police station. Police said the condition of the body suggested that the death occurred several days earlier. The body was sent to Civil Hospital mortuary for an autopsy on Monday.“The bullet seems to have pierced through both sides of the temple,” an investigator said even as the autopsy was conducted by a board of two doctors. A police officer said, “It is suspected that the woman was shot dead and the body was hidden inside the bathroom to conceal the crime. The exact cause and timing of death will be established after the postmortem report.”Ashok Prajapati, Madhu’s maternal uncle and a resident of Alwar, told TOI that after the missing complaint was lodged by his sister Pooja (Madhu’s mother) on May 22, Ankit, who runs a hookah shop in Manesar, fled his house. “We suspect that Ankit and his family members are involved in making our daughter disappear. Despite repeated requests, they did not give us any satisfactory answer,” Pooja said in the complaint.According to police, neighbours alerted authorities after noticing a foul smell emanating from the bathroom in a room located above a bank. Panic prevailed in the locality after the door was opened and the body was found. Police are investigating the owner of the room. Teams from Manesar police station and the forensic science laboratory (FSL) inspected the spot and collected evidence.Madhu, a native of Hansaka village in Rewari district, got married to Ankit, a resident of Manesar, on Feb 19 and had been living with him since then. Her mother Pooja, a labourer and resident of Hansaka village in Rewari, alleged that on May 21, Ankit’s uncle and sister visited her house in Rewari and informed the family that Madhu was missing. When the family reached Ankit’s house to inquire about Madhu, he left the house after seeing them and didn’t give any satisfactory response.Prajapati said the family initially searched for her on their own after being informed by her in-laws. “My sister called me late on May 21 after Madhu’s in-laws came to their house and informed them that she was missing. I reached Gurgaon the next morning. When I contacted her husband and in-laws, they claimed she had run away from the house and they were unaware of her whereabouts,” Prajapati said.He alleged that the family repeatedly discouraged them from approaching police. “They kept insisting that we should not go to the police as it would bring embarrassment in society, but eventually we lodged the missing complaint,” he said.“On May 24, investigating officer ASI Mukesh informed us that Madhu’s body had been recovered. Police told us that Ankit had taken Madhu somewhere on his scooter. He informed us on May 21 that she was missing, but he killed her and fled,” Ashok alleged.Meanwhile, Sahil Yadav, who accompanied the family from Alwar to Gurgaon, alleged that Ankit had concealed his first marriage from Madhu’s family. “Ankit was already married to a woman named Rajni around three years ago and has two children from that marriage. Neither Ankit nor his parents informed us about this before Madhu’s marriage. We learnt about his previous marriage only after lodging the missing complaint,” Sahil said. He alleged that the family suspects Madhu was killed after Ankit’s first wife came to know about his second marriage.Police said that they were questioning members of Ankit’s family as part of the probe. Meanwhile, a few villagers from Ankit’s village reached the local mortuary and requested the victim’s family to allow them to take the body with them, citing that Ankit’s family was not aware of any such crime. The victim’s family turned down their plea and refused to send the body for cremation in Ankit’s village.
