'It was Chintan's plan to lure Hema to her death by promising sex tape'

While Chintan Upadhyay continues to deny any hand in the murder of his estranged wife Hema Updhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani a detailed confession from one of the accused says otherwise The confession clearly outlines how the accused lured Hema to the murder scene with the promise of giving her a sex tape of her husband with another woman all of this was allegedly Chintanrsquos masterplanAlso Read Mumbai Did Chintan Upadhyay want case transferred to crime branchPradeep Rajbhar left said that Chintan Upadhyay had plotted his wife Hemarsquos murderThe 13page confession was made before a magistrate by Pradeep Rajbhar who used to work and live at the art workshop Bansraj Art Company where Hema and Harish were murdered on December 11 2015Read Story Has prime accused in Hema UpadhayHarish Bhambhani murders changed his looksPradeep said it was Chintanrsquos idea to lure her there and murder her since he was upset that she had filed a false complaint against him in court Pradeep recalled how he was called to Jaipur on December 3 by the main accused Vidyadhar who owns Bansraj Art Company When he reached Jaipur station the next day they went to Chintanrsquos bungalow and met his father who told them that Chintan would meet them in Mumbai insteadPlan is revealedSo on December 8 Pradeep Vidyadhar and another accused Vijay Rajbhar who ferried the corpses in his tempo and dumped them went to Chembur to meet ChintanVidyadhar had asked Pradeep to switch off his phone and hand it over When they met Chintan he asked Pradeep what he was doing at the time Pradeep replied that he was out of work and badly needed money Chintan then told him that he would get big money if he did a job for himWhen Pradeep asked Chintan what the work was Chintan told him to call Hema and pretend that he was Mahendra Gupta a cook working at Chintanrsquos Jaipur bungalow Chintan gave him precise instructions to tell Hema that lsquoI PradeepMahendra have taken three video clips of Chintan sleeping with a girlrsquoChintan said ldquoAgar tum Hema ka kaam kardoge to tumhe bees lakh de dungardquo Vidyadhar and Vijay replied ldquoHaan ho jayegardquoPradeep told the cops that he asked Chintan for the reason behind the plan to which Chintan allegedly said that Hema had filed a false complaint against him in court and lsquodue to that I Chintan am very upsetrsquoAfter Chintan left Pradeep asked Vidyadhar and Vijay what the final plan was to which Vidyadhar said lsquoto murder HemarsquoMurders most foulOn December 10 Vidyadhar took Pradeep to Krushna Hotel and asked him to call to Hema Pradeep called Hema and told her that he had three video clips of Chintan with another woman He told her that she could have the videos for Rs 2 lakh After some time Hema called back and Pradeep told her to meet him at Bansraj Art CompanyAlso Read Chintan Upadhyay gets shot at freedom Crime Branch takes over caseOn the day of the murder Vidyadhar took Pradeep to the warehouse showed him two big crates and said that Hema and one man would be kept in the boxes Vidyadhar then called Hema at 330 pm and informed her that Mahendra had arrived Hema said she would reach by 830 pmShe arrived with her lawyer Harish and they sat downstairs Vidyadhar came up to them with a bottle in hand and poured the contents into a handkerchief He told the rest of the group to hold Hema and Harish down and then knock them out with the substance in the handkerchief However during this struggle Vidyadhar hit his head on the corner of a table and suffered mild bleedingOnce Hema and Harish fell unconscious Vidyadhar fixed a tape around their hands legs mouth and eyes Hema madam as Pradeep kept referring to her soon came to and the Vidyadhar pressed the handkerchief down on her nose When Pradeep touched her neck to check for her pulse Hema had diedPradeep declared that both Hema and Harish were dead and the accused mdash Vidyadhar Pradeep a minor accused Shivakumar Rajbhar mdash packed the bodies in the cardboard boxes Before that they removed the belongings of Harish and Hemarsquos rings and kept them in her white purse Vidyadhar took a picture of HemaVijay brought a tempo and they loaded the bodies on it Vijay Vidyadhar and Pradeep took Hemarsquos car and parked it at a secluded spot in Charkop and then came back for the tempo Vijay then took the tempo near a nullah in front of the Dahankarwadi Cemetery and all the accused together dumped the bodies there The next day Vidyadhar paid Pradeep R2000 and asked him to hide the evidenceTwo days later Pradeep was arrested