In an alleged case of love affair in Haryana’s Yamunanagar, dating back to 2021, the remains of a man were exhumed on Tuesday for a DNA test — four years after his death — as police had allegedly destroyed the samples taken in the case.
The investigating officer, Dalbir Singh, told The Indian Express Wednesday that the exhumed remains, along with his mother’s blood samples, are likely to be sent to the Forensic Scientific Laboratory (FSL) on Thursday.
This comes after a court order dated September 3, 2025, where Yamunanagar District Sessions Judge Danish Gupta said: “It is necessary that further investigation be conducted in the present case by way of conducting the DNA Test of the deceased by comparing… the last remains of the deceased with the blood of his mother.” The deceased, Mohamad Azim (29), a Chandpur village resident and an employee at a Yamunanagar chemist shop, went missing on January 7, 2021. His body was recovered from a canal a month later, on February 8, but the police declared it unclaimed. The body was cremated after being kept in Yamunanagar’s civil hospital for 72 hours.
The victim’s brother, Mohamad Ashraf, alleged that Azim was killed on the same day he went missing, by the relatives of the woman who was allegedly in a relationship with him. Based on his complaint, the police then arrested three persons — Sharafat Ali, Israr alias Bhura and Aadil — on February 21, 2021, followed by the arrest of the woman, Asha Rani, on April 11, 2021, on the charges of murder and conspiracy.
Following the interrogation of the arrested accused, Ashraf said when the police showed him the body’s photographs, he recognised his brother on the basis of the clothes on the body.
Ashraf told The Indian Express on Wednesday that in an attempt to locate Azim, he had seen at least 10 bodies but could not trace his brother. On January 16, 2021, Ashraf said he received a phone call from a woman who claimed that Azim was with her. Ashraf claims this was an attempt to mislead him.
Thereafter, a sample taken during the post-mortem was sent to FSL, Madhuban.
