Hema Upadhyay murder: 3 more held, all 4 accused to be produced in court

Hours after Sadhu Rajbhar, the main accused in the Hema Upadhyay murder case, was arrested in Varanasi, the Mumbai police nabbed three other suspects today. Vijay kumar Ramadhar Rajbhar, Pradip Kumar Pannala Rajbhar and Azad Bhujarat Rajbhar will be produced before the Boriwali court today for remand.

Sources told India Today that Sadhu Rajbhar has confessed to his crime. Rajbhar was arrested by a Special Task Force (STF) team and was questioned about his role in the sensational double murder. ATM cards of both Hema and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani have also been recovered from Rajbhar, a top UP STF official told India Today.

"I gagged Hema and her lawyer before killing them both," Rajbhar reportedly told police in his confessional statement.

Rajbhar is said to be the last person artist Hema Upadhyay had spoken to before she mysteriously disappeared on Friday evening.

The mutilated bodies of painter Hema Chintan Upadhyay and her advocate Harish Bhambhani were found dumped in a Kandivali drain on Saturday evening.

Police said Hema and her advocate's last known mobile phone locations were between Charkop and Kandivali, where the bodies were found. Both phones were switched off around 8.30 pm on Friday. Hema used to store her works at a godown in Charkop. Reports say that a man named Gotu, who is the owner of the Charkop godown, was also under police scanner. According to sources, Hema and Gotu had a dispute over Rs 5 lakh.

Three persons, including Hema's husband Chintan Upadhyay, were detained and quizzed by the police on Sunday. Hema was going through divorce battle with her artist husband Chintan Upadhyay since 2010.

Chintan was quizzed all day Sunday. He told the police that he hadn't spoken to her recently. Bhambhani was representing Hema in a complaint of harassment she had filed against Chintan in 2013 for painting obscene sketches on the walls of their Juhu flat.