On September 28, 2018, Chandraveer was shot in the back of the head at his home in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, by his wife, Savita, and her neighboring lover. To prevent blood from staining the floor, Savita placed a bucket under her husband's hanging head to collect the dripping blood for over an hour. To avoid identification from a named wrist bracelet, the perpetrators severed Chandraveer's wrist and disposed of it near a chemical factory. They moved the body across connected rooftops to the lover's house, buried it 6 to 7 feet deep beneath a cattle shed, poured the collected blood over the dirt, and masked the odor with animal waste. Later, the lover built a cemented floor and a bedroom directly over the burial site. Savita misled family and police for nearly four years (~1,500 days) after Chandraveer's elder brother, Bheru Singh, filed a missing person report. In April 2022, new Ghaziabad SSP Muniraj assigned Crime Branch In-charge Abdul Rehman Siddiqui to re-investigate cold files. A constable questioned Chandraveer's 16-year-old daughter, who revealed her mother's extramarital affair and suspect behavior. Following police interrogation, both suspects confessed and led officers to the bedroom, where Chandraveer's skeletal remains were excavated.
Country: India
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh, India
City/Region: Ghaziabad
Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide
Relationship Status: Married
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Incident Date: Sept. 28, 2018
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Infidelity
Savita was married to Chandraveer, who was 16 years older, and lived with him and their three children in Ghaziabad. Within months of moving in, she began an extramarital affair with her next-door neighbor, utilizing adjoining rooftops for hidden visits. When Chandraveer discovered the affair and scolded her, Savita and her lover conspired to eliminate him. They executed a premeditated firearm attack while he slept, systematically destroyed physical evidence, buried the body beneath a newly built bedroom, and maintained a deceitful narrative for nearly four years until cold-case investigators re-interviewed family members.
The case remained unsolved for nearly four years after being shelved as a missing person matter. In April 2022, Ghaziabad SSP Muniraj directed Crime Branch In-charge Abdul Rehman Siddiqui to re-evaluate pending cold cases. A constable who recognized Savita's public outings with her neighbor initiated discrete inquiries with Chandraveer's 16-year-old daughter. Her statement regarding her mother's extramarital affair led to the detention of Savita and her lover. Following police interrogation, the suspects revealed the burial site inside a private bedroom. Police excavated the floor and recovered Chandraveer's skeletal remains, as well as the blood-collection bucket, spade, and firearm stored in a neglected room.
Initial efforts were hindered because the incident was filed as a routine missing person/kidnapping case on October 5, 2018. Investigators searched roadways for CCTV footage and monitored mobile tower records, but found no external movements because the body was transferred directly across connected rooftops. Furthermore, the subsequent murder of the original complainant (Chandraveer's elder brother Bheru Singh) by his own son over an unrelated dispute diverted police attention away from Savita, allowing the missing person file to go cold.
Savita feigned improved behavior to drop Chandraveer's suspicions prior to September 28, 2018. After Chandraveer fell asleep following dinner, Savita summoned her neighbor, who climbed down from the rooftop with a country-made pistol. Together, they shot Chandraveer in the back of the head. Savita hung his head over the edge of the bed and placed a bucket beneath it to collect dripping blood for over an hour. They severed his wrist to eliminate a personalized bracelet, which the lover discarded near a chemical factory. They then carried the body across the rooftop into the lover's cattle shed, buried it 6 to 7 feet deep, poured the collected blood into the pit, and covered it with dirt and animal waste. The lover later cemented the floor and constructed a private bedroom over the grave. The scheme was unraveled when cold-case officers questioned the victim's daughter.
Significant risk factors included an unaddressed marital rift, a concealed extramarital relationship, escalation following direct discovery and confrontation by the victim, access to an illicit firearm, and a high degree of premeditation focused on evidence concealment and long-term deception.
Targeted re-interviews with co-habitants and immediate family members, particularly minors who were present during prior domestic conflicts, can prove crucial in cold cases involving spousal homicide. Structural alterations or suspicious home renovations following a sudden disappearance should serve as key investigative focal points.
Chandraveer catching Savita and her neighbor red-handed in the bedroom served as a major escalation point, followed by Savita's deliberate behavioral shift toward submissiveness to disarm her husband's vigilance.
A local police constable's observation that Savita was frequently seen in public with her neighbor provided the critical lead that prompted direct questioning of Chandraveer's daughter.
Key physical evidence included skeletal remains excavated from beneath the cemented bedroom floor, the blood-crusted bucket, digging spades, and the country-made pistol recovered from a disused store room.
Chandraveer's elder brother, Bheru Singh, filed a police report on October 5, 2018, stating that Chandraveer had been missing since late September. In April 2022, Chandraveer's 16-year-old daughter informed police that her mother had an ongoing affair with a neighbor and that the neighbor was involved in her father's death.
Four years after the original missing person filing, new leadership reviewed cold files and shifted the investigation from a missing person case to a premeditated spousal murder inquiry.
The severed wrist and hand bearing the named bracelet were reportedly thrown into a chemical factory area and were not explicitly detailed as recovered in the source report.