Four Police Teams Hunt Absconding Accused as Autopsy Findings Deepen Shreya Upadhyay Murder Probe

Four special police teams are hunting Vivek Choubey (also spelled Chaubey in some records), the absconding accused named in the Shreya Upadhyay murder case, Varanasi Police said in updates through 22 August 2026. DCP (Crime/Gomti) Neetu Kadyan is on record for the investigation. Raids have been run at multiple locations. The accused had not been arrested in the material used for this report.

Shreya Upadhyay, an MSc student and NEET aspirant from Marui village, had been missing since 18 August after leaving for college. Her body was found on the afternoon of about 20 August in the bathroom of a rented room in the Bachhawn / Rohaniya area.

Post-mortem findings cited by doctors and police on 22 August reported a throat injury consistent with a slit wound, a head injury, and legs found tied. Samples relating to a possible sexual assault were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory. Those points are qualified as autopsy and police-reported findings at the investigation stage. They are not court conclusions.

Family members have alleged a marriage-refusal angle and a property-related dispute. Police have questioned the landlord and the accused’s father, according to the same investigation updates. Allegations from the family are reported as allegations; motive remains under probe.

The Bachhawn rented-room recovery sits under Rohaniya’s policing map. Four special teams widen the search beyond a single station’s beat, which matches an absconder hunt rather than a custody interrogation. DCP Kadyan’s involvement signals crime-branch oversight of the file.

This case is separate from other recent Varanasi murder reporting already in circulation. Names, dates and the Bachhawn bathroom recovery identify Shreya Upadhyay’s probe on its own facts. No graphic description of the body beyond the qualified autopsy points is used here.

Police say raids continue while forensic reports are awaited from FSL on the sexual-assault-related samples. Until Choubey is arrested and charged, the police narrative of sequence and motive stays provisional. Readers should treat accused, alleged and according-to-police language as the limit of what can be stated now.

Shreya’s profile — postgraduate science student preparing for NEET — has shaped public attention in Marui and in the Rohaniya belt. That attention does not substitute for evidence. The investigation’s next public markers will be an arrest, FSL returns, and any formal charges.

Investigators have not released a charge-sheet timeline in the 22 August updates. Landlord questioning and the accused’s father’s questioning are procedural steps that can narrow who had keys, who visited the Bachhawn room, and when Shreya was last seen alive after leaving for college on 18 August. Those leads remain police work product until filed in court.

Varanasi Police said four special teams were still searching for the absconding accused Vivek Choubey on 22 August, with DCP Neetu Kadyan overseeing a probe that now includes qualified autopsy findings and FSL referrals.