Deepak Dhanraj Shah, who owned a Customs-notified shop in Timliawad, was reported missing by his family members. He was residing in 302, Sukhsagar Apartment near the Umara Police Station with wife Ila and two kids.

Ila, according to the prosecution, had an illicit relationship with her cook Kanu. Deepak had found the two in a compromising position and drove the cook out of his house. On the night of July 1, 1992 Deepak returned home around 11 pm. He was never seen again.

Kanu in his judicial confession admitted that he and his lover had engaged two professional killers -- Bhagwati and Kallu alias Kaushlendra -- to kill Deepak who was coming in the way of their relationship. Ila drugged Deepak and her twokids and later called Kanu, Kallu and Bhagwati, all of whom who were waiting near the house.

Deepak was knifed and also smothered by them in his bedroom. His body was cut into pieces and packed into a box and taken into a white Maruti car to Antroli village near Kadodara crossroads. They tried to burn the pieces to destroy the evidence in the dead of night. However, before they could escape the village sarpanch and others saw the burning pieces and alerted the police. The body was sent for postmortem. All that the police could recover from the smouldering remains was the skull and few bones.

When Kanu was taken into custody, he had spilled the beans and later recounted the whole incident in his judicial confession. Ila first confessed to the crime but later retracted it.

Ila was released on bail after 93 days while the three others were in jail for the last six years.