Early on Thursday, flames from a burning Scorpio on a road in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district attracted local residents and police. Three charred bodies were discovered inside the vehicle. A fourth victim was removed from the fire by a passing truck driver and taken to a hospital, where the person was pronounced dead.
Investigators later concluded that the scene had been arranged to present the deaths of an entire family as an accident. Police arrested 45-year-old Sunita, the former wife of ex-sarpanch Ramsingh Chaudhary, and detained the couple’s 19-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son over the killings of Ramsingh, his mother and former sarpanch Pusi Devi, his second wife Surgyan Devi, and his niece.
