Days after artist Chintan Upadhyay was questioned in the murder of his wife artist Hema Upadhyay, his friends have spoken against the police action.
According to a report by the Mumbai Mirror, the police have been able to verify his alibi for the time when Hema Upadhyay was found murdered with lawyer Haresh Bhambhani.
According to a report, he was in New Delhi on December 8 playing hist to a Hungarian artist when the murder took place.
He was questioned by the crime branch for eight days before setting him free. Two days after the crime branch set him free, the Kandivali police arrested him on December 22.
The bodies of Hema Upadhyay and Haresh Bhambani were found wrapped in plastic sheets inside cardboard cartons dumped in a sewer in Kandivali on December 12.
An earlier report by the Mumbai Mirror claimed that Chintan’s call records had revealed that when a trick call was made by the prime accused Vidhyadhar Rajabhar, Chintan and Vidhyadhar were in the same location in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Chintan was also detained in Jaipur on November 21, 2015 for a and aerial display of a plastic cow.
However, the latest report states that the crime branch had investigated the same call records cited by Kandivali police and still given him a clean chit.
Chintan was in touch with Vidyadhar but we found nothing suspicious in his recent activity or interaction with him. Chintan was satisfactorily able to explain what was asked of him. Maybe the Kandivali police obtained some new evidence in the last few days.
The families of the two deceased spoke to The Quint. Hema’s family claims that Chintan harassed her for over a decade.
Anita Bhambhani, the daughter of Hema’s lawyer, has told the police that her father and his client were scheduled to meet Chintan’s servant who had claimed to have video clips of his employer with three women.
Vidyadhar had arranged for some ‘servant person’ who worked at Chintan’s house in Jaipur to come to Mumbai and meet Hema and my father and try sell some evidence that will help Hema’s cases against Chintan.
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