35-Year-Old Woman Found in Fridge Months After Murder by Live-In Partner in MP’s Dewas

35-Year-Old Woman Murder: In a horrifying case, the body of a 35-year-old woman has been discovered inside the fridge of the house where she used to stay. Her live-in partner apparently killed her in March 2024, and since then, was keeping the body in the fridge.

A 41-year-old man killed his live-in partner in March last year and kept her body in a refrigerator for nearly 10 months before it was discovered in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district, police said on Friday after the suspect’s arrest from Ujjain 40km away.

The case came to light when the other tenants in the house started noticing a foul smell coming from the room which Sanjay had vacated in July last year, but was still retaining.

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"The woman is in her 30s. We suspect she was killed in June 2024. After a foul smell started emanating, neighbours called the landlord who opened a portion of the house. The woman's body was found in the refrigerator, the shelves of which had been removed. He then alerted police," Dewas Superintendent of Police Puneet Gehlot told reporters.

“People complained of the foul smell and on inspection of the house, we found the body,” Dewas superintendent of police Puneet Gehlot said.

The house is owned by one Dhirendra Shrivastava, who lives in Indore, the SP said.

"Shrivastava had rented his house to one Sanjay Patidar of Ujjain in June 2023. A year later, Patidar vacated the house but continued to keep his belongings in a study room and the master bedroom. He told Shrivastava he would vacate this portion later," Gehlot said.

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"Patidar used to visit the house once in a while. Recently, the current tenant asked the landlord to unlock this portion of the house. The landlord showed this portion of the house to the tenant but then locked it again, since Patidar's belongings were inside, and switched off power supply on Wednesday," said Bank Note Press police station inspector Amit Solanki.

The incident came to light since the refrigerator stopped working after electricity was switched off and a foul smell started emanating from that portion of the house, Solanki added.

"Patidar has been taken into custody and is being questioned," the inspector informed.

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