In Shobhadala village near Visavadar in Junagadh district, Gujarat, a 16-year-old minor boy allegedly murdered his 22-year-old brother, Shivam Giri, and his 19-year-old pregnant sister-in-law, Kanchan Kumari, following an argument over the minor's alcohol addiction. Hearing her husband's screams, Kanchan Kumari intervened and was sexually assaulted and fatally kicked and beaten. The minor suspect dug a 5 to 6 feet deep pit inside their ashram home, stripped the victims, buried the couple along with the six-month fetus, and sealed the pit with cement. The suspect's mother, Veerma Devi, a sadhu living in the ashram, allegedly helped destroy evidence, burned their clothes, and misled the victim's family with false claims of a road accident until police exhumed the bodies on October 31.
Country: India
State/Province: Gujarat, India
City/Region: Junagadh
Incident Type: Family Homicide
Relationship Status: Married
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Incident Date: Oct. 16, 2025
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Crime Tak - India · Original language: Hindi
भाई के सिर फाड़ फिर उसी की आंखों के सामने Pregnant भाभी का किया रेप, मां निकली असली मास्टरमाइंड
Domestic Conflict
This case illustrates an acute escalation of intra-familial strife aggravated by chronic juvenile substance abuse and gambling. Arguments over behavioral reprimands escalated rapidly into lethal physical assault and sexual violence. Post-incident behavior involved concealment by burying the victims on household premises and secondary assistance from a parent aiming to conceal the crime through destruction of evidence and false narratives.
Visavadar police initially processed the matter as a missing person case following a complaint by the victim's father. Technical surveillance and conflicting suspect statements led officers to inspect the residence. Police exhumed two adult bodies and a fetus from a cement-sealed pit inside the home. Mother Veerma Devi was taken into custody for destroying evidence, burning clothes, and misleading investigators, while the minor suspect confessed during interrogation.
The investigation was initially hindered by deliberate misdirection when the minor suspect and his mother informed the victim's family that the couple had gone to a fair and subsequently died in a traffic accident, sending a fake video clip to reinforce the story. Minor discrepancies in the suspect's statements regarding the exact date of the attack also caused initial timeline uncertainty.
On the evening of October 16, the intoxicated 16-year-old suspect returned home and engaged in an argument with his elder brother, Shivam Giri. The minor attacked Shivam with an iron pipe. When Kanchan Kumari rushed to help, the suspect sexually assaulted and struck her, kicking her stomach. Panic-stricken, he struck both victims on the head, dug a deep pit inside the residence, stripped the bodies, buried them along with the fetus, and sealed the surface with cement. Upon her return, mother Veerma Devi burned the victims' clothes and assisted in covering up the crime while delivering false accident reports to the victim's relatives until police exhumed the scene.
Key risk indicators included severe alcohol dependency in a minor, persistent household arguments, lack of structured intervention for aggressive behavior, and strained interpersonal relations between family members cohabitating in the same dwelling.
Underscores how persistent intra-family hostility combined with substance abuse can abruptly transform into catastrophic violence, as well as the importance of scrutinizing fabricated post-disappearance explanations offered by close relatives.
Frequent verbal altercations over the minor suspect's heavy drinking, gambling habits, and late-night intoxicated returns served as primary warning signals prior to the escalation.
Inconsistent phone explanations from the mother claiming the couple went to a fair, followed by a sudden claim of a fatal traffic accident without providing body details or crash locations, along with a fake video sent by the minor, created strong suspicion.
The physical recovery of two buried bodies and a fetus from a 5-to-6-foot cement-sealed pit inside the residence, charred remnants of burned clothing, weapons, and mobile location records constituted the primary evidence.
The father of Kanchan Kumari reported that after multiple unanswered calls starting October 16, his daughter's mother-in-law gave conflicting stories about a fair and an accident while withholding body details, prompting his missing person complaint. Ashram residents reported prior domestic quarrels between mother-in-law Veerma Devi and Kanchan Kumari.
Police follow-up on the missing person report transformed a presumed missing couple scenario into a triple murder and sexual assault investigation following physical excavation of the home.
The precise underlying motives beyond the immediate alcohol-fueled argument, the full extent of the mother's presence or prior knowledge during the commission of the violent acts, and precise timestamp details remain under police review.