Mumbai Man Found Buried in Home; Wife and Her Lover Accused of Murder

Husband Buried Beneath Floor: Wife, Lover Vanish With Child in Chilling Mumbai Crime

New Delhi , 22 July 2025

Vijay Chavan’s body was discovered 15 days after he went missing; police suspect wife Chaman and her lover Monu plotted the murder for money and fled with her 7-year-old son.
New Delhi, 22 July 2025

In a shocking case from Mumbai’s Nalasopara, 40-year-old Vijay Chavan’s decomposed body was found buried under his house floor, 15 days after he went missing. Police suspect his wife Chaman and her lover Monu planned the murder.

The duo is currently missing, along with Chaman’s seven-year-old son. According to police sources, the murder appears to have been pre-planned. Chaman reportedly had a 3.5-foot-deep pit dug inside the house 12 days ago and called a tiler two days later to lay new tiles over the pit, paying ₹1,200 for the job. The plot came to light when Vijay’s brothers, concerned after not hearing from him for two weeks, visited his house. When they asked Chaman about Vijay’s whereabouts, she casually claimed he had gone for work in Borivali, Kandivali, or Malad. On July 19, however, Chaman abruptly left the house with her son. CCTV footage from that day showed her buying samosas from a local vendor before disappearing.

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Suspicion grew when Vijay’s family noticed a few floor tiles inside the house looked recently replaced and slightly different in colour. After receiving a call from the family, police broke through the floor tiles and found Vijay’s body buried a few feet underground, wrapped in a black plastic bag. The murder appears to have had a financial motive. In addition to having roughly ₹2–3 lakh in his bank account, home renovation contractor Vijay recently received ₹6 lakh from an insurance policy. In addition to giving Chaman ownership of their current house, he had plans to purchase a new one. Chaman had been using OTPs from Vijay’s phone to access his bank account and take out cash from several ATMs, investigators discovered. The precise figure is still being confirmed.

After more research, it was discovered that Chaman was allegedly seeing Monu, a neighbour. When Monu’s mother once overheard him talking to Chaman, she took away his phone, but it was later given back. The case’s plot, which involves deceit, cover-ups, and prearranged concealment, is uncannily similar to that of the Bollywood movie Drishyam. To find Chaman, Monu, and the child, police have filed a murder case and started a manhunt.

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