Clerk who took burned doctor to hospital turns out to be her ex & accused

A week after 25-year-old Dr. Bhavna Yadav died of burn injuries, Hisar police arrested Udesh Yadav — the man who admitted her to hospital.

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00:00A week after 25-year-old Dr Bhavna Yadav was admitted with severe burns and later died,

00:05Hisar police arrested the man who took her to the hospital, seen here on this now viral CCTV

00:10footage. The prime accused Udesh Yadav, the police now said, was a former lover.

00:15The Hisar police made some startling revelations about 30-year-old Udesh Yadav,

00:19a clerk at Haryana Agricultural University. He was arrested on 1 May 2025. Udesh and Bhavna had

00:26met in 2018 at a wedding and soon entered into a romantic relationship, the police said.

00:31A marriage proposal was sent to Bhavna's family but it was rejected. According to Udesh's mother,

00:37Bhavna wanted to marry her son but Bhavna's mother disapproved, saying he was just a clerk.

00:42Bhavna left for the Philippines in 2018 to pursue an MBBS degree. She returned in 2023 and began

00:49preparing for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination, a medical licensing exam in India,

00:54compulsory for Indian citizens who obtained their MBBS degree abroad.

00:58In the meantime, Udesh joined Haryana Agricultural University in 2019 and married Nikki in 2021.

01:04He lives in university quarters on campus. After Bhavna returned,

01:08they reconnected and started communicating again. However, things sawed when Udesh began

01:12distancing himself. Bhavna reportedly started contacting him using unknown numbers. When he

01:17cut off contact entirely, she began messaging and calling his wife Nikki on WhatsApp police said.

01:23Nikki submitted a 60-page chat log to the police, showing Bhavna's repeated attempts to reach out.

01:28One of the messages sent on April 21, just three days before the incident, read,

01:33I am not okay, I will end myself. Nikki reportedly tried to counsel her.

01:37According to police, Udesh took Bhavna to a private hospital in Hisar on the morning of April 24,

01:432025. At 8.35am, he called her mother, Gayatri Yadav, informing her that Bhavna had suffered burn

01:50injuries. CCTV footage confirmed his presence at the hospital. However, by the time Bhavna's family

01:56arrived, Udesh had gone missing. Due to her critical condition, Bhavna was shifted to SMS

02:01Hospital in Jaipur, where she later died during treatment. A medical board conducted the post-mortem

02:07and based on a zero-FIR filed earlier, Hisar police registered the case and launched an investigation.

02:13Under mounting pressure from the victim's family, who had threatened to protest,

02:16police intensified search efforts. Udesh eventually surrendered. Udesh's wife and

02:21mother have publicly defended him, claiming Bhavna had a history of creating drama and pressuring

02:26him to marry her. They allege that she set herself on fire and that Udesh wasn't present when it

02:32happened. They say he fled out of fear of being framed. During a search of his room, police recovered

02:37a bottle of petrol, burnt clothes and other key evidence. Hisar deputy SP Tanuj Sharma confirmed the

02:43arrest and said interrogation is ongoing.