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A video of police officials searching a house and finding the dead body of a woman in the fridge is going viral
Claim :
A Hindu man killed his Muslim wife and stored her body parts in the fridgeFact :
Both of them belonged to the same community, there is no communal angle to the incidentA video of police officials searching a house and finding the dead body of a woman in the fridge is going viral on social media with the claim a Hindu man named Sanjay and a Muslim woman named Gulnaz got married and they were living in a rented room. When people broke doors and looked inside, they found Gulnaz’s body in the fridge. This claim is in circulation with the hashtag #Bhagwa_Love_trap.
The claim in Hindi goes “मामला मध्यप्रदेश के देवास की घटना है ये हिन्दू #संजय पाटीदार और मुस्लिम लड़की गुलनाज भागकर शादी की थी किराये का रूम लेकर रहते थे 4 दिन से रूम बंद था लोगों ने दरवाजा तोड़कर सब चेक किया तो गुलनाज की लाश के टुकड़े फ्रिज में रखे मिले,, अब बताओ su/वरों जिहादी कौन है,,,” When translated, it goes: “Sanjay and Gulnaz eloped and got married. They were living in a rented room. The room was closed for 4 days. When people broke the door and looked inside, pieces of Gulnaz's body were found in the fridge. #Bhagwa_Love_Trap”
Here is the archive link of the claim.
Fact Check:
The claim is False.
When we searched further, we found other social media posts sharing information about the incident with the caption “5-yr-old Live-in Relationship, Body Dumped in Fridge For 9 Months, Case Revealed Today After Power Outage! A young woman's body was mysteriously found inside a fridge in a locked room at Vrindavan Dham Colony, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. The incident came to light after neighbors noticed a foul smell and informed the police. In the preliminary investigation, police discovered the body was months old. Later, Sanjay Patidar and Vinod Dawe were arrested, and the full story came to light. Sanjay had been in a live-in relationship with the deceased, Pinki Prajapati, for 5 years. After Pinki insisted on marriage, Sanjay, along with his accomplice Vinod, strangled her in March 2024, and then stored her body in a fridge. The case was uncovered today when a power outage caused a foul smell to emerge from the flat.”
According to the Times of India, for over six months, a murdered woman's body lay rotting in a refrigerator in a rented room in MP’s Dewas. In July 2024, a person took the ground floor of a building on rent, but could not use a room as it was closed. When the key could not be found, the lock was broken and doors were unlocked. They found the fridge switched on. After the fridge was switched off, an unbearable stench filled the locality. Some neighbors called the police. When the police opened the refrigerator, a decomposed body wrapped in a bedsheet fell out.
The police confirmed that the victim was Pratibha (alias Pinky), and was killed by her live-in partner Sanjay Patidar.
According to ABP news, Sanjay Patidar has confessed his crime during police interrogation. The woman's name is Pratibha alias Pinky Prajapati. Sanjay Patidar was living in a live-in relationship with her for the last five years. For the last three years, they lived in a house in Ujjain. After that, he rented a house in Dewas and kept Pinky Prajapati for two years. Due to the pressure of marriage, he, along with his friend, strangled Pinky to death and kept the body inside the refrigerator.
Therefore, the claim that the woman murdered in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, was a Muslim and her name was Gulnaz is False. The woman’s name was Pratibha or Pinky Prajapati and there is no communal angle to this incident.
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