Her husband went to jail for her 'murder' — 12 years later, she's found alive
A woman believed to have been murdered 12 years ago — a case that led to the arrest of her husband and members of his family — has been found alive in a neighbouring Indian state. The extraordinary discovery has reopened a 2014 murder case in Bihar and left investigators with another mystery: Who was the woman whose body was recovered from a canal and identified as hers? Get it: Fast, verified…
Twelve years after her husband's arrest in connection with her murder, Shakuntala Devi has been found alive in a neighboring Indian state. The discovery has reignited a 2014 case in Bihar and raised new questions.
Shakuntala disappeared from her home in Bihar's Rohtas district in 2014, allegedly due to harassment from her in-laws over dowry demands. Her body was later found in a canal, leading to the arrest of her husband Arun Mehta, his father Dilip, and his brother Govind Kumar.
In recent months, a tip-off revealed that Shakuntala was spotted alive in Jharkhand, leading to her return to Rohtas. Police have now launched an investigation to determine the identity of the woman whose body was recovered in 2014 and how it was wrongly identified as Shakuntala. The family's lawyer claims the dispute was settled for Rs 800,000, which reportedly required the sale of ancestral land.
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