Maharashtra Man Kills Live-in Partner, Stuffs Body Inside Mattress, Arrested

Edited By: Abhro Banerjee

Last Updated: February 15, 2023, 09:21 IST

The 37-year-old has been apprehended and taken into custody. (Representational-PTI)

Hardik Shah was nabbed by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel from a train at Madhya Pradesh’s Nagda.

A 37-year-old man from Maharashtra’s killed his live-in partner and stuffed her body in a mattress. A case has been registered at Tulinj Police station in Palghar district.

As per initial investigation, the victim was a nurse by profession and the two have been in a relationship for the past six months.

The accused, Hardik Shah, was caught on Tuesday by the Railway Protection Force personnel from a train at Madhya Pradesh. Later, cops got to know about the murder when they started interrogating him.

These recent murders come as a reminder of the horrific Mehrauli murder case in which a man named Aaftab Poonawala murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar by strangling her and cutting her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in the locality in that lies in South Delhi before dumping them across the city.

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