Kajal Shah and her lover Hitesh Jain had allegedly planned to kill Jain’s wife too, suspect Mumbai police’s crime branch. The couple are accused of killing Shah’s husband Kamalkant, a Santacruz-based businessman, and his mother Sarladevi Shah. Crime branch officers said the couple wanted to get rid of their spouses so they could marry each other while also usurping Kamalkant’s property. The duo had allegedly studied a Delhi murder where the accused had used Arsenic and Thallium.

Crime branch officers during the course of investigation and interrogation of both the arrested accused have learnt that Shah and Jain started to have an affair around eight years ago. The duo first met through Kamalkant who was a childhood friend of Jain.