Pradeep Rajbhar, one of the accused and an approver in the double murder case of artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani, blamed the police yesterday for forcing him to turn an approver and give a confessional statement.

When Pradeep was produced in Dindoshi Sessions court yesterday with all the other accused in the case, he told the court that he was pressured into giving a confessional statement.