The forensic student wanted to commit the perfect murder, she did commit murder but she made one mistake

This story takes place in Delhi, India.

One night, the fire brigade and police received information that a house had caught fire. Neighbors reported hearing a loud explosion and immediately called the authorities. The police and firefighters rushed to the scene.

The fire had broken out on the fourth floor of the building. After a great deal of effort, the firefighters finally managed to bring the blaze under control. The explosion had terrified the people living nearby as well.

Once the fire was extinguished, the police entered the room along with the fire brigade personnel. The scene inside was horrifying. Amid the burnt belongings, they found a severely charred body that had been completely burned.

When the police began their investigation, they discovered that the body belonged to a 32-year-old young man named Ramkesh, who was living in the room as a tenant. No one else lived in the house.

Further investigation revealed that Ramkesh had been staying there for quite some time and was preparing for the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) examination while living there.

After this, the forensic team also arrived at the scene, and the body was taken to the morgue. The police then began their investigation. Everything inside the house had been burned, and the gas cylinder in the kitchen had completely exploded. Belongings were scattered everywhere. The police could not find anything that immediately suggested foul play. To anyone who saw the scene, it looked like a tragic accident.

At first, it was thought that the air conditioner had exploded because it was also badly damaged, but later it became clear that the damage had been caused by the cylinder blast. There was not much else for the police to work with, so they decided to examine the CCTV cameras in the surrounding area to see if anything unusual or suspicious had happened that night.

While reviewing the CCTV footage, the police suddenly noticed an image. Two people, their faces covered with masks, could be seen entering the house. Although their faces were hidden, it was clear from the footage that one was a man and the other was a woman. Both had deliberately concealed their identities.

After seeing the CCTV footage, the police began to suspect that this might not have been an accident but a conspiracy. The problem, however, was that both individuals had their faces covered, making it difficult to identify them.

The police became even more suspicious because the two people had entered the house about 40 minutes before the fire started. Then, only a few minutes after they were seen leaving the house, the fire rapidly spread and the explosion occurred.

This raised an important question: Were these two people still inside the house when the fire broke out, or had they deliberately started the fire themselves? The police now had to find the answer. At this point, investigators were increasingly convinced that the case was a planned crime rather than a tragic accident.

However, when the forensic team arrived and the police carefully examined the crime scene, the theory that had formed in their minds after watching the CCTV footage suddenly began to fall apart. The suspicion that the footage had created seemed to turn into nothing more than a bubble, as new evidence at the scene started pointing in a different direction.

The forensic experts noticed something very important. The house had only one main entrance door, and the latch on that door was locked from the inside. If the latch was locked from the inside, it meant that whoever was inside had locked it. No one could have entered from outside after that.

And inside the house, there was only Ramkesh.

So, despite the CCTV footage showing two suspicious individuals, the fact that the door was locked from the inside made the police feel that they might have been suspecting foul play for no reason. It began to look like a simple accident—a gas cylinder explosion that had caused the fire and resulted in a death.

The locked door from the inside seemed to support the accident theory. However, one question still bothered the investigators: what were those two people doing at the house around the time of the incident?

The police continued examining the CCTV footage and collecting every possible clue. Eventually, their hard work paid off. After several efforts, they managed to gather useful information through the registration numbers of some vehicles that had been parked nearby, along with footage from other CCTV cameras in the area. This gave them a new lead and helped move the investigation forward.

The police eventually identified the two people seen in the CCTV footage. The woman was named Ankita, and the man was Sumit. Both were residents of Moradabad.

The police then traveled to Moradabad, but neither of them was at home. This raised even more suspicion. Investigators noticed that both of their mobile phones had been switched off since the night of the incident. Not only that, but both had also disappeared from their homes after that night.

After further questioning and inquiries, the police obtained Ankita's and Sumit's phone numbers and began examining their call records and location data. The call details provided strong evidence that the two had indeed been present in Ramkesh's flat on the same night the fire broke out.

At this point, the investigation took a dramatic turn. What had initially appeared to be a tragic accident was now increasingly looking like a carefully planned crime, with Ankita and Sumit emerging as key suspects in the case.

This confirmed the police suspicion further—the disappearance of both Ankita and Sumit, and the switching off of their mobile phones, all of this increased doubt in the police investigation.

However, the police still paused at one point. The latch of the house was locked from the inside, so how could this be a conspiracy? This question still pointed towards it being an accident. But the answer to this question could only be found once the two suspects were caught.

The incident happened on 6 October, and 12 days passed. Then, on 18 October, based on a tip-off, the police arrested both Ankita and Sumit.

They were taken into custody and interrogated. At first, both of them denied everything, but later they confessed.

Ankita said that she knew Ramkesh and had lived with him for some time in that same flat. She also said that she was a student and was pursuing a BSc in Forensic Science. Because of this, she used to visit that place regularly.

She further explained that on the night of the incident, she had gone there to meet him and left afterward. The accident, she claimed, happened after she had already left the flat.

At this point, the police did not have any solid direct evidence. There was only CCTV footage showing a person entering the house, and that too someone known to the victim. And the fact that Ankita had been with him made the situation even more unclear—there was nothing clearly “wrong” in that alone.

There was no direct proof that this was not an accident and instead a planned conspiracy, that the cylinder had been deliberately exploded, or that it was a murder. There was no such concrete evidence.

So the police continued their investigation in their own way, but both Ankita and Sumit kept denying everything. Even though both were in police custody, the case was not opening up.

Slowly, during repeated interrogation, the police tried different approaches to investigate the case. But one thing still kept stopping them—the fact that the door latch was locked from the inside. This suggested that no one from outside could have entered.

One of the police officers kept getting stuck on the same question again and again. He asked a forensic expert about it: there was CCTV footage showing two people arriving that night. The timing also matched—they had arrived before the incident and left shortly before the fire broke out.

There was also a connection with the woman, as she had previously lived in a live-in arrangement there. But the latch was locked from the inside. This suggested that the two had gone to the house and were later sent off by Ramkesh himself.

After sending them off, he might have gone to sleep, and then by coincidence, a cylinder explosion could have caused the fire. The question was—was this possible?

The forensic team replied that yes, this scenario was completely possible. However, the forensic experts also noticed that the police were repeatedly getting stuck on the issue of the inside-locked latch. So they decided to re-examine the case from the beginning once again.

The forensic team then re-examined the door latch carefully. The door was a common type seen in many houses—a metal grill door with thin rods and a mesh screen to prevent mosquitoes from entering.

During the investigation, the forensic experts discovered something unusual near the latch area. There was a small hole at the spot where the latch was fixed. It appeared that the hole had been cut or tampered with, and then someone had tried to bend or fix it back into place to hide the alteration.

However, the hole was so small that when the police tried inserting their hand through it, they could not reach the latch from the inside. It was not possible to access or operate the latch through that opening.

Ramkesh’s mother was also present there. When the police officers could not reach the latch with their hands through the hole, they asked her to try as well.

Since Ramkesh’s mother was slim and did not have a heavy build, she was able to easily put her hand through the same hole. Her hand reached the latch without any difficulty. She was even able to unlock and lock the latch from inside, and then easily pull her hand back out.

At this moment, the forensic team understood everything clearly.

After this, Ankita and Suman were called again, along with another friend named Sandeep, whose presence that night had already been confirmed through CCTV footage. All three were from Moradabad.

Sumit and Sandeep were also asked to put their hands through the hole, but they could not reach the latch. However, when Ankita was asked to try, she put her hand in and was able to easily reach the latch.

At this point, it became clear. If this was indeed a conspiracy, then the conclusion was that they were the ones who had killed Ramkesh.

After this became clear, the police began interrogating all three in their own way.

During questioning, Ankita broke down, and Sumit and Sandeep also eventually broke down. All three then gave the same version of events.

According to their story, Ankita was a BSc student studying forensic science. She had a boyfriend named Sumit from Moradabad. Later, they broke up.

After the breakup, Ankita came to Delhi to continue her forensic studies. She got admission there and started studying. During this time, she needed a place to stay. Around then, she met Ramkesh at her institute, who was preparing for the UPSC exam.

During their friendship, Ankita found out that Ramkesh was living in a rented place, so she suggested that she could also stay there. Since they were friends, they decided to share the rent and started living together in a kind of live-in arrangement.

As time passed, one day Ankita discovered that Ramkesh had saved several objectionable photos and videos of her on his laptop while they were living in the same house. These were inappropriate and private images.

When Ankita came to know about this, she told Ramkesh to delete all of them, saying that it was not right. Ramkesh agreed and said he would delete them, but he never actually did it.

As time passed, Ankita started getting angry. She began to feel that Ramkesh was trying to defame her.

At that time, she called her ex-boyfriend Sumit and told him everything—that some objectionable photos of hers were stored on Ramkesh’s laptop and he was refusing to delete them. She feared that in the future she could be defamed. She said she had tried to explain it to him in every possible way, but he was not listening, and she asked what should be done.

Then both of them decided that they would remove him from their way and also take out the hard drive from his laptop containing all the files.

After this, they involved their friend Sandeep in the plan.

Sumit’s background was that he ran an LPG agency in Moradabad. Because of this, he already had knowledge of gas cylinders. Ankita had also kept some of his LPG-related items at Ramkesh’s house, so Sumit was familiar with the layout of the house and its structure.

Because of this familiarity, the three of them sat together and planned how to carry out the act.

In this situation, there were two “experts” involved—Sumit, who had knowledge of LPG cylinders, and Ankita, who was studying forensic science and had basic understanding of crime scenes, including how investigations work and what could mislead the police.

Together, they planned the entire act.

After detailed planning, it was decided that they would first kill Ramkesh by strangling him.

Sumit’s role was to slightly open the knob of the LPG cylinder so that gas would slowly start leaking out. Then he would place the gas pipe near Ramkesh’s head and ignite the house using a matchstick. After that, all of them would leave the place.

They planned that when the gas gradually filled the room and the cylinder eventually exploded, none of them would be present at the scene, as they would already have left and be far away from the house.

So, that night all three—Ankita, Sumit, and Sandeep—went to Ramkesh’s house, a place where Ankita had previously stayed.

After reaching there, they strangled Ramkesh to death. Then they placed his body on the bed and poured petrol over it.

After that, they brought the gas cylinder and placed it near his head. They slowly opened the cylinder knob so that gas would start leaking out gradually.

After doing all this, Ankita said that if they could make the police believe that the door was locked from the inside and that no one had entered the house, then there would be no suspicion. In that case, the police would treat the entire incident as an accident rather than a crime.

Then Ankita slightly cut at that door and put her hand in to see if she could lock it from there; everything was set. After that, a fire was set. Now gas is slowly leaking from the cylinder and the fire is gradually increasing, and during this time, all three of them go outside. Ankita reaches in and locks the latch from that hole. And they leave from there. After a while, the fire gradually increases and reaches the cylinder, causing an explosion. When the explosion occurs, the sound reaches the neighbors, and they call the police. The police arrive, and thus Ramkesh's story comes to light.