India, Nov. 26 -- In a shocking twist of affairs, on Monday, the police arrested a 49-year-old man for allegedly murdering his 90-year-old mother-in-law, in a case that was initially assumed to be a natural or accidental death.

According to the Uran police, the woman was found dead at her home in Bhom village earlier this month. The family was preparing for her cremation when an emergency call prompted the police to take a closer look. "If not for the 112 call, the case would have gone undetected, as the family had no complaints and the body was to be cremated without a post-mortem," a police officer said.

Once the post-mortem was conducted, it revealed multiple grievous injuries consistent with assault. Wooden planks recovered from the...