He saw the body,” the elder brother told the cops.
“No, I did not see the body,” the young man said, disputing his elder brother’s version.
Lipika Kumari’s half-burnt body was recovered four days after her death at her home in Jharkhand. The two brothers’ conflicting accounts deepen the mystery surrounding the woman’s death.
The woman reportedly died on April 7 at her Govindpur home in Dhanbad. Four days after the incident, when a foul stench began to emanate from the half-burnt corpse, neighbours alerted the police.
Lipika was in a deep depression after her father, a former scientist at the Central Institute of Medical and Forensic Research, died of a heart attack in 2023.
According to the elder brother, Pranav Rajyavardhan, Lipika was extremely unwell on April 7 and had vomited three or four times.
“She vomited three-four times. I rubbed her feet and got her a blanket. She blurted out my name a few times but then just collapsed. I informed my brother, but he did not turn up for three to four days. I told him first,” Pranav, dressed in a not-so white vest, said.
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