Faridabad: Woman murdered, buried outside home by in-laws; body exhumed from soak pit after 2 months
Faridabad news: In a shocking case from Faridabad, Haryana, a 25-year-old woman, Tannu Rajput, was allegedly murdered and secretly buried by her in-laws outside their home—while pretending she had gone missing for nearly two months.
The incident came to light after Tannu's father grew suspicious about a freshly filled pit near the family’s home in Roshan Nagar, Palla, and alerted the police. Following this, the Faridabad Police exhumed the woman’s body from an 8 to 10-foot-deep soak pit in front of the three-storey house where she lived with her husband, Arun Singh, whom she married in 2023.
Originally from Khera village in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district, Tannu was declared missing on April 25, with Arun filing a complaint stating that his wife—whom he claimed was intellectually challenged—had disappeared. However, investigators soon found holes in the story. Her family firmly denied she would run away and insisted she had not left on her own. Their fears turned tragically real.
The breakthrough came when the police detained Arun's father, Bhoop Singh (50), for questioning. Under sustained interrogation, he allegedly confessed that Tannu had been murdered and her body buried in the pit outside the home in the dead of night to avoid suspicion. A JCB machine was brought in to excavate the site, where the police recovered Tannu’s remains—clad in the same clothes she was last seen wearing.
An autopsy was conducted at Badshah Khan Civil Hospital by a medical board, with the report awaited. The chilling details of the case suggest premeditated planning by the family. The soak pit, which neighbours were told was being dug for preventing waterlogging, turned out to be the woman’s secret grave.
Locals mentioned that on April 22, a wedding was held in the neighbourhood. The next day, the family began digging the pit using machinery, covered it with plastic sheets, and later buried Tannu after dark. According to the police, the pit was originally intended for a sewer connection, as the area lacks formal drainage systems. But after the murder, it was filled with sand to conceal the body.
Four members of the family, including the husband, are now in custody.
- With inputs from agencies
