... Jitin Dedhia for crying so convincingly just after his wife's funeral. Cops say he gave Rs 1 lakh supari to have her killed
...u00a0Jitin Dedhia for crying so convincingly just after his wife's funeral. Cops say he gave Rs 1 lakh supari to have her killed
On the morning of October 27, Jitin Dedhia (41) and his wife Beena (39) were on a morning walk, when she was mugged and killed by chain snatchers.
Dedhia painted the picture of the perfect husbandu00a0grief-stricken, barely coherent and unable to come to terms with the tragedy.
Yesterday, Dedhia in a verbal statement to the police said he had engineered the murder because he was in love with another woman, Rupal Chheda.
This then is how, Dedhia allegedly plotted to kill his wife, according to the police.
The police were in a fix because the suspect's sketches made on the basis of his description did not resemble any of the chain snatchers on police record. 
Yet, the police detained over 450 chain snatchers from across the city for an identification parade, but Dedhia refused to identify a single person.
Then, 16 days ago, the crime branch unit 2, probing the case learnt from their sources that Dedhia had a less than amicable relationship with his wife.
The police began investigating the reasons behind the problems between the couple and soon learned Dedhia had an extramarital affair with his sister-in-law Rupal Chheda (33) and after intensive interrogation, Dedhia confessed to his involvement in the murder.
Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Rakesh Maria said, "We wanted to gather strong evidence against Jatin before nailing him down and our informers led us to the hired assailants Mohammed Nasim Khan and Hasruddin Malik, who were arrested from Moradabad [in UP] and Antop Hill respectively."
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In fact, Dedhia hadn't mentioned that the phone was missing in his complaint. Dedhia, Rupal and Rajnikant Wagh (a newspaper vendor and his friend) were arrested for conspiring to kill Beena yesterday.
Interestingly, Dedhia had earlier told the assailants that he wanted to get rid of a woman who was troubling him and his family. It was only much later, that the killers realised the woman, in fact, was his wife.
Preliminary inquires have revealed that Rupal, a BA graduate was unhappy with her financially weak husband Paresh.
She used to take tuitions, make chocolates and do bridal mehendi to support her family. A year-and-a-half ago, she fell in love with Dedhia, who asked Beena for a divorce to marry Rupal.
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When Beena refused, the lovers allegedly hatched the plot to kill her. All five will be produced before the Esplanade court today.
Rakesh Maria said that, Dedhia had got desperate and wanted to kill Beena at home, but the plan could not be executed as her ageing parents were at home.
Jitin introduced Rupal to the killers three times in an effort to convince her that the plan had to be executed soon.
October 4
The day the murder was planned at Darbar restauant, Lalbaug
Inputs by J Dey
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