A warehouse worker has been arrested in relation to the
suspected double murder of a prominent Indian artist and her lawyer, police
say.
The bodies of artist Hema Upadhyay and Harish Bhambhani
were pulled from a drain in Mumbai on Saturday. Their hands and legs had been
bound and their bodies stuffed in boxes wrapped in plastic.
Shivkumar Sadhu Rajbhar, a metal fabricator in a Mumbai
warehouse, was detained in Uttar Pradesh state, northern India,
Inspector-General Sujit Pandey told CNN.
The suspect told investigators he and four other
accomplices killed Upadhyay and Bhambhani, Pandey said.
According to Rajbhar's police statement, Upadhyay was
murdered because she had refused to pay around $7,500 she allegedly owed to his
employer, the warehouse owner. The suspect claimed the lawyer was murdered
because "he just happened to be present there (at the time)," Pandey
said.
Police said Rajbhar was found to be in possession of the
victims' credit and debit cards, however they don't know the extent to which he
was involved in their deaths.
"What we can say with certainty is that he was
associated with the murders, but it would be too early to say how and to what
extent until further investigations complete," Pandey said.
Rajbhar's employer is at still at large.
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