Mugdha Deshmukh, a 34-year-old MBA student, secretly returned to India from London and was later found dead in Pune
PUNE: A 34-year-old woman who had gone to London to pursue an MBA but secretly returned to India without informing her family was found dead in a rented apartment in Pune’s Gahunje area, with her death remaining a mystery. Her family became concerned after they were unable to contact her following their last conversation on October 23. When they approached her friend in London, they learnt that Mugdha had left the UK around the end of August. The family approached the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar crime branch, which traced her location to the Lodha Belmondo residential complex in Gahunje, near Pimpri Chinchwad.
She had told her domestic help that she was leaving the flat and asked her to stop coming to work, according to Chavan. Investigators also found that she rarely interacted with other residents of the housing society and lived alone. The circumstances that led Mugdha to return to India without informing her family, as well as the cause of her death, remain unclear.