Image Credit: X (Deshmukh, a native of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, was found dead at a residential complex in the Gahunje area)
However, they were unable to reach her on October 24, after which her mobile phone was switched off, her father Avinash Deshmukh stated in a complaint lodged with Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar police earlier this week.
There were no visible injury marks on her body, police said. Neighbours told police that Deshmukh rarely interacted with other residents of the society. “She was living alone,” senior police inspector Devendra Chavan of Shirgaon police said. The friend approached London police to report her missing but was told that she had left the UK around the end of August, the officer said.
Her family had been in touch with her through phone calls and messages. Her viscera has been preserved to ascertain the exact cause of death.
Days later, 34-year-old Mugdha Deshmukh was found dead inside her rented apartment in Pune, after food delivery transactions alerted her family to the possibility that she had secretly returned to India from the UK. She had left for the UK in July 2025 to pursue an MBA and was believed by her family to be living in London.
PUNE: “She had told her domestic help she was leaving the flat and asked her to stop coming for work,” a police officer said. However, investigators found that she had returned to India in August without informing them.