MUMBAI: Three suspects have been detained in link with the double murder case of properly-known painter Hema Upadhaya and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani below even as a group from Mumbai law enforcement still left for Uttar Pradesh dependent on inputs that the culprits may have fled to the state.
The trio, recognized as Azad Rajbhor, Pradeep Rajbhor and Vijay Rajhbor were detained yesterday from the city, a senior law enforcement officer advised PTI nowadays.
They are in the company of production and selling fibre glass, which was employed by Hema and her husband Chintan Upadhyaya for their installations, said the officer, privy to specifics of the probe.
The interrogation of the detainees is even now underway, the officer said.
They realized Chintan for the final couple of several years, as he is also a painter, and used to buy the fibre glasses for his paintings, stated law enforcement sources.
1 between them had named Hema on her cell telephone just before her murder on Saturday, law enforcement explained.
Meanwhile, a team of Mumbai Police has long gone to Uttar Pradesh as they suspect that the culprits have to have fled to that condition and taken shelter there.
In accordance to police, bodies of Hema (43) and Bhambhani (65), with their fingers and ft tied with ropes, were recovered from a drain in suburban Kandivali on Saturday evening soon after locals and a ragpicker first spotted two card board packing containers (in which the bodies have been stuffed) and informed cops.
Their entire body samples have been despatched for chemical analysis and their autopsy reports are awaited, the senior offical explained.
“As for every our probe their bodies (in containers) had been transported in a tempo from suburban Juhu to Kandivali (W),” explained DCP (Detection) Dhananjay Kulkarni these days.
In this connection, law enforcement have also quizzed the transporter, who confirmed that he dumped the two packing containers in a nullah in Kandivali on Saturday afternoon contemplating that it contained broken antiques.
The statement of the transporter has been recorded, they mentioned.
Also, law enforcement on Saturday recorded the statement of the watchman at Hema’s apartment in Juhu Tara Road and her domestic servant Lalit Mandal.
Apart from, Hema’s partner Chintan, who was in Delhi and arrived in the town yesterday, was questioned by the Criminal offense Branch.
In accordance to police, Hema’s domestic aid experienced filed a lacking criticism at Santacruz law enforcement station on Saturday. Bhambhani’s young daughter Anita had also filed a comparable criticism at Matunga police station the identical working day.
Hema and her attorney experienced been lacking given that Friday evening, stated police including the watchman of Hema had very last observed her on Friday at 11 AM.
Whilst according to Anita, at close to six.30 PM on Friday, Bhambhani had left his King Circle property in Matunga to fulfill Hema.
As per police, Bhambhani satisfied Hema at her art studio in Andheri at all around 8.thirty PM (on Friday). Then he had a phrase with his spouse on cellphone, right after which the Bhambhani family could not communicate with the latter in spite of calling him frantically a number of times.
Law enforcement suspect that an unidentified individual, but known to the duo, had named the attorney to give new evidence in a house dispute case of Hema.
They also strongly suspect that the duo were smothered by the killer/s.
Meanwhile, Further Commissioner of Law enforcement (North Region) Fatehsingh Patil claimed that his group is very close to cracking the circumstance but did not disclose anything additional.
Law enforcement said Bhambhani’s automobile, in which he had still left for the assembly, is nevertheless to be traced.
The Baroda born artist experienced in 2013 filed a situation in opposition to Chintan, alleging he painted obscene photographs of girls on the walls of their matrimonial house in Mumbai to harass her. Bhambani had represented Hema in the case.
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