India, March 31 -- Ten days after a woman's decomposed body was discovered in the bushes in Virar East on March 21, the Mira Bhayander-Vasai Virar police crime branch identified the victim as Priya Kumari Yadav, 22, and arrested her husband, who allegedly murdered her over suspicions of an affair, along with an accomplice.

Piecing together fragmented evidence and forensic leads proved to be a formidable challenge for investigators, as the body was in an advanced stage of decomposition. With no immediate identifiers, the police relied heavily on CCTV footage analysis, technical surveillance and movement tracking to crack the case.

The police on Sunday arrested the husband of the deceased and his friend, who allegedly assisted him in carr...