The decomposed body of a 60-year-old woman was found inside a box below the bed at her apartment in North-East Delhi’s Sonia Vihar area on Saturday morning, police said.
The deceased has been identified as Meena Kumari and the police is on the look out for her husband Rakesh who is missing since the incident came to light, a police official said.
It was around 10 am that locals of Sonia Vihar called up police and informed them of stench emenating from the house of the couple, which was found to be locked from outside.
A police team rushed there and broke open the door and went inside following which they conducted a thorough search and found Kumari’s body inside the bed box, lying face down.
The body was at least three days old and it had decomposed beyond recognition. A case of murder was registered and the body sent for autopsy, the official said.