37-year-old missing woman found dead

Ghaziabad: The body of a 37-year-old woman, who had been missing since August 6, was found near the Hindon river on Sunday night. One person has been arrested in connection with the case. Police said the woman has been identified as Madhuri alias Palak and she used to work at a spa in Noida’s Jagat Farms. She stayed in Indirapuram with her three children.
Rahul, Madhuri’s brother, said she left home to go to work around 9 am on August 6. “She used to return around 9 pm. But when she did not come home even after 10 pm, we started looking for her. We called up our friends and relatives and also visited the spa. Finally, we lodged a complaint with police on August 9,” he said.
Manish Kumar Mishra, SP (city), said that around 10.30 pm on Sunday, Indirapuram police teams found the woman’s body and tried to contact the family. But no one responded to phone calls. “Around 11.30pm, a police team went to the woman’s house and informed the family about the body. The family members identified the woman,” he said.
“Investigation revealed that the woman lost her husband a few years ago and she was in a relationship with the accused,” Mishra said. The man, named Mustafa, has a meat shop in Indirapuram. “The woman had demanded some money from him, but he could not arrange for it. Mustafa, then called her to his shop, slit her throat with a knife and dumped the body where he used to dump waste from his meat shop,” Mishra added.
The accused has been booked under sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of IPC.