In a grisly crime that has horrified Surat, a local man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife, Dr. Shilpa Salvi, a 39‑year‑old dietician, and hiding her decomposed body in a wooden box filled with cement at an abandoned house in the Salabatpura area of the city.

Police say Vishal Salvi, 40, killed his wife at their residence in the Godadara area of Surat on April 20 before transporting her body to an old family house in Salabatpura, where he placed it inside a wooden trunk and poured cement over it in an attempt to conceal the crime and mask any odour. The body was discovered four days later by investigators, who had initially registered a routine missing‑person complaint after Vishal himself approached police claiming his wife had vanished.

The case took a sharp turn when the couple’s minor son handed over a handwritten note allegedly written by Vishal to relatives, who then passed it on to the police. The note contained a confession‑style admission that he had committed a “grave mistake,” that Shilpa was no longer alive, and even indicated the location of the concealed body, leading officers to the cement‑sealed box.

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Shilpa Salvi, who worked as a dietician at SMIMER Medical College and Hospital, had been married to Vishal for about 15 years and the couple had two children. Family members became suspicious when they could not contact her by phone and were told by Vishal she had gone to the hospital and not returned, prompting her father to travel from Chhattisgarh to Surat and push for a more serious investigation.

Investigators say the murder likely followed a domestic quarrel linked to marital strain and Vishal’s unemployment, though the exact cause of death is still being determined through a forensic autopsy. The case has become a grim reminder of how domestic tensions can spiral into fatal violence, even as authorities sift through the note, CCTV footage, and other forensic evidence to build a solid case against Vishal.

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