MEERUT, April 6 -- A murder case that had remained buried for nearly a year and a half surfaced in Bijnor's Chandpur area after police recovered the skeletal remains of a woman who went missing under suspicious circumstances in late 2023. The victim, Ashifa, was killed by her former husband, Kamil, and his elder brother, Adil, whom she had later married, police said.

The matter surfaced after Ashifa's mother, Asma, filed a missing person complaint on March 25, 2025, at the Heempur Deepa police station and named Kamil, Adil, and seven others in the disappearance. A resident of Sabdalpur village, Asma told police that she had tried calling her daughter several times over the past one and a half years.

However, her calls were either unansw...