On October 29, 2025, police discovered the unclothed, blood-soaked body of a woman inside an abandoned rice mill near National Highway 48 in the Grid area of Navsari, Gujarat. Following the review of over 100 CCTV camera recordings, police apprehended Faisal Nasir Pathan of Bardoli. During questioning, Faisal identified the deceased as his friend Riya, whom he had known for about a year. He confessed to punching and strangling her during a financial dispute on October 28, dragging her body to the ground floor, and fleeing. Upon further interrogation, Faisal disclosed that three months prior, he had also killed his ex-wife Suhana at the same abandoned mill by pushing her off the building terrace during an argument over character disputes following their divorce. Police subsequently searched the premises and recovered Suhana's skeletal remains, clothing, and ornaments from a locked room.
Country: India
State/Province: Gujarat, India
City/Region: Navsari
Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide
Relationship Status: Divorced
Relationship Duration: Approximately 1 year (with Riya)
Incident Date: Oct. 28, 2025
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Approximately 1 year (with Riya)
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2025-10-28
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Crime Tak - India · Original language: Hindi
Gujarat Murder Mystery: जब फैज़ल ने खुद बताया अपनी दो हत्याओं का सच!
Domestic Violence
The case illustrates an escalating pattern of extreme domestic and romantic partner violence perpetrated by the same individual across two distinct relationships. In both instances, the offender utilized the same abandoned, secluded location to isolate the victims during heated personal arguments. In the first instance, post-divorce character conflicts led to fatal physical force, after which the victim's body was hidden indoors. Three months later, a financial dispute with a romantic partner resulted in another fatal physical assault at the same location.
Police initially investigated an unidentified female homicide after receiving a report from a bystander on October 29, 2025. Officers scanned over 100 CCTV feeds, identifying Faisal Nasir Pathan, who was last seen with victim Riya. Following his arrest, Faisal confessed to killing Riya during a financial dispute. Additional interrogation led Faisal to disclose that he had murdered his ex-wife Suhana three months earlier by pushing her off the building terrace during a dispute over character accusations. Police accompanied Faisal to the abandoned mill and recovered Suhana's skeletal remains along with her clothes and jewelry. DNA testing and formal double-murder charges are underway.
Investigators originally treated the scene as an isolated homicide involving an unidentified woman found unclothed on the ground floor. The investigation unexpectedly broadened when the suspect disclosed during interrogation that he had committed another murder three months earlier at the exact same location, a crime that had gone entirely unreported and undiscovered until his confession.
Faisal married Suhana, but the relationship suffered from family disapproval and character disputes, leading to separation and divorce around July 2025. Shortly after, Faisal summoned Suhana to the terrace of an abandoned rice mill in Grid, Navsari, where an argument escalated and he pushed her off the building, causing her immediate death. He hid her body in a locked room within the mill, where it decomposed into a skeleton. Three months later, on October 28, 2025, Faisal met his friend Riya at the same abandoned mill. A dispute over money arose, during which Faisal punched and strangled Riya, dragged her body from the second floor to the ground floor, stripped her clothes, and fled. Bystanders discovered Riya's body on October 29, prompting CCTV tracking that led to Faisal's arrest and the discovery of both homicides.
The perpetrator demonstrated persistent high lethality indicators, including severe physical assault, fatal pushed falls, strangulation, and recurring utilization of an isolated, abandoned building to conduct private meetings and execute violence without immediate detection. Post-divorce conflict, financial disputes, and isolated meeting places represent extreme risk factors in this case context.
Abandoned or unmonitored structures can serve as repeated crime scenes for violent offenders seeking location familiarity and concealment. Meeting estranged spouses or partners in secluded locations during unaddressed interpersonal conflict poses extreme personal safety risks. Thorough suspect questioning and scene examinations can uncover prior unrecorded crimes.
Early warning signals included persistent post-divorce hostility, unresolved disputes over character accusations between Faisal and Suhana, and monetary conflicts between Faisal and Riya.
CCTV footage from surrounding highway and town locations provided the critical link by capturing Faisal in the company of victim Riya shortly before her death.
Key evidence includes CCTV video footage, bloodstains and torn clothing at the scene, a broken mobile phone fragment, physical recovery of Riya's body, recovery of Suhana's skeletal remains with clothing and ornaments, and the suspect's detailed confessions.
A local boy reported finding the unclothed, blood-soaked body inside the abandoned mill to the police on October 29, 2025. Police officials stated that over 100 CCTV cameras were examined to identify the suspect.
Follow-up interrogation transformed an initial single-victim homicide case into a double-murder investigation after the suspect disclosed the prior unrecorded killing and hidden skeletal remains of his ex-wife.
DNA verification results for the formal identification of Suhana's skeletal remains remain pending, alongside final court prosecution proceedings.