Hema Upadhyay murder: Police dispatch teams to nab main accused Vidya

The interrogation of suspects in the double murder of noted artist Hema Upadhyaya and her lawyer has given fresh leads to investigators on whereabouts of main accused Vidya Rajbhar following which Mumbai Police teams have been dispatched to various locationsAccording to police Vidyas arrest would shed light whether the killing was the fallout of a financial dispute between him and Hema or whether it was a contract killing ordered by her estranged husband Chintan who remains to be under scanner in the case We have sent several police teams to different locations outside the state where we suspect Vidya must have gone hiding a senior police officer said without divulging further detailsMeanwhile police has sealed the warehouse of Vidya at suburban Kandivali West where bodies of the victims were found in a drain packed in cardboard boxes Vidya who is a resident of Shamsi Housing Society in suburban Kandivali West was zeroed in as the main culprit following sustained questioning of the four persons detained in connection with the murders of Hema Upadhyaya 43 and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani 65 who were cremated on Monday evening in the presence of family and artistsAs per police on Saturday night the day they were believed to have been killed it was Vidya who had called Hema on her mobile at 730 pm A manhunt was launched for Vidya immediately after Shivkumar Rajbhar alias Sadhu was detained by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force in Varanasi yesterday following a request by the Mumbai policeSadhu had went public with the claim that the two were killed under instructions from Vidya We killed them on orders of Vidya he had told a TV channel while seated in a police vehicle upon his detentionAsked how the killings were executed he said We used handkerchiefs soaked in a chemical Three other suspects in the caseAzad Rajbhar Pradeep Rajbhar and Vijay Rajbhar were detained in Mumbai on SundayThe three men are in the business of manufacturing and selling fibre glass which was used by Hema and her estranged husband Chintan Upadhyaya also an artist for their installationsThe bodies of Hema Upadhyaya and Bhambhani their hands and feet tied with ropes were recovered stuffed in cardboard boxes from a drain in Kandivali on SaturdayHema a Barodaborn painter and installation artist was locked in a bitter divorce proceedings with her husband and had in 2013 filed a case against him alleging that he painted obscene pictures of women on the walls of their matrimonial home in Mumbai to harass her Bhambhani had represented Hema in this caseHemas domestic help had filed a missing complaint at Santacruz Police Station on Saturday after she did not return home Bhambhanis younger daughter Anita had also filed a complaint at Matunga Police Station the same day Hema was last seen by the watchman of her apartment building at 11 am on Friday According to Anita Bhambhani had left his Kings Circle home to meet Hema at 630 pm on FridayInvestigators said Bhambhani met Hema at her art studio in Andheri around 830 pm on Friday before talking to his wife on phone Thereafter the Bhambhani family could not establish contact with him despite calling him several times