Mugdha Deshmukh found dead in Pune flat

Mugdha Deshmukh, 34, was found dead inside her rented apartment in Pune after her family traced her return to India through transactions on online services, police said. Her cause of death has not been established, and investigators said there were no visible external injury marks on her body. Police said officers entered the flat at the Lodha Belmondo residential complex in Gahunje, in the Pimpri Chinchwad area, with help from a locksmith and found Deshmukh inside. Internal-organ samples were preserved for further medical examination. Police are also examining phone and financial records as they investigate the circumstances of her death and her final days in Pune. Deshmukh’s family, from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, had believed she was in the United Kingdom, where she had gone in July 2025 to pursue an MBA. Police said she returned to India in August 2026 without informing her parents and began living in Pune. She had rented the apartment in April, according to police. The family became concerned after it could not reach her on October 24 and her phone was switched off. Her father, Avinash Deshmukh, checked her bank statements and found transactions on food-delivery and other...