India, May 9 -- The Goregaon police have launched a manhunt for a 65-year-old man who allegedly murdered his wife and concealed her body inside the trunk of their bed before fleeing their chawl residence. The discovery was made on Wednesday evening, days after neighbours began noticing a foul stench emanating from the locked room.

The accused, identified as Pratap Baskoti, is suspected to have killed his wife, Ragini Sonu Savardekar, 63, on Sunday. The couple lived in Motilal Nagar-1, a densely packed working-class locality in Goregaon West.

According to the First Information Report (FIR), Baskoti handed over the keys of his one-room home to a neighbour on Sunday, claiming he and his wife were heading to South Mumbai. However, the two n...