A chilling, blind murder case that rocked the Navi Mumbai Police Commissionerate has been cracked following a pan-India technical investigation. The Panvel Taluka Police have arrested a 27-year-old brick supplier who allegedly brutally bludgeoned his lover to death with an iron rod, stuffed her body into a Honda City, and set it ablaze using petrol in a remote forest area to erase all evidence of the crime.

The horror came to light on April 11, when Mahadu Gopal Patil, a 56-year-old local police constable of Chinchavali village, was alerted by a farmer named Posha Sitaram Patil. The farmer was heading to his fields when he noticed a badly charred human corpse hidden in the thick bushes of the Rajmati forest zone, a property belonging to the forest department near the Chinchavali-Vakdi village border.