India, Jan. 24 -- On a winter morning in January 2026, as wedding preparations quietly unfold in a village in Rajasthan's Alwar district, the bride's name draws uneasy attention. Priya Seth, 34, is not an ordinary bride. She is a life-term convict - the woman at the centre of one of Jaipur's most chilling crimes: the Tinder suitcase murder.

Priya is in the news again after being granted a 15-day parole to marry fellow life-term convict Hanuman Prasad, whom she met and fell in love with inside Rajasthan's Sanganer open jail. Their relationship, forged behind prison walls, has culminated in a wedding that has sparked outrage, reopening memories of a crime that once horrified the nation.

In early 2018, Dushyant Sharma, a 27-year-old aspiri...