Palghar (Maharashtra): A home-owner was jolted when he opened his tenant's room in Boisar town in this Maharashtra district to find a woman's skeleton stuffed in a plastic water drum, police said on Monday.
The Palghar police, which is investigating the case, is likely to send a team to Bihar to pick up the suspects believed to be holed up there.
According to a police complaint lodged by Lokesh Mithalal Jain, he decided to break open the room which had remained shut for 18 months as his tenants had gone away last year and stopped paying rent since the past five months.
"The complainant said that the tenants had left in February 2019, promising to return, and instructed him not to give the room away to anybody else. They continued to pay the monthly rent of Rs 4,000 via electronic transfer from Belwara village in Bihar's Saharsa district. However, the rent suddenly stopped coming around six months ago," said investigating officer Pradip Kasbe of Boisar MIDC Police Station.
Since the room was lying vacant and he was not getting rent, Jain broke it open to discover the human remains stuffed inside the water drum in the loft and alerted the police.
As per preliminary investigations, the skeletal remains are suspected to be of Bulbul Deepak Jha, 20, who used to live in the room along with her husband Deepak, 25, her in-laws Pawan Jha, 50 and Bachhudevi, 45, and a sister-in-law Neetu Mukesh Thakur.