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Woman’s husband, main suspect in her 1992 murder, alive: Gujarat Police

The Indian Express·Brendan Dabhi·about 1 month ago
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A DAY after a Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team and Crime Branch personnel found fragments of bone, teeth and hair at a depth of 20 feet in a septic tank under a derelict, abandoned home in the Vatva area of Ahmedabad, believed to be the last remains of 18-year-old Farzana alias Shabnam, who was suspected to have been strangled to death 34 years ago in 1992, the primary suspect in her “murder”, her husband, Shamshuddin Khedawala, has been traced by the police. This is a major development in the case as the Crime Branch had been earlier led to believe that Shamshuddin was dead. A senior officer, however, confirmed to the Indian Express on Thursday that Shamshuddin had been living incognito and that his family had allegedly lied to the police to shield him from the inquiry into the three-decade-old case. Farzana is suspected to have been killed and buried in the septic tank of a house in Vatva by her husband and three others.…

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