Husband paid 2 allies to kill wife

The Navi Mumbai Crime Branch said it had cracked the Ulwe murder case in which a 27-year-old chemist, Alvina Kishorsingh Rajput, also known as Alvina Adamali Khan, had her throat slashed by a masked assailant on Sunday night.

- Sameera Kapoor Munshi

NAVI MUMBAI:

The Crime Branch concluded that it was the deceased's husband who had masterminded the killing by hiring a contract killer. Rajput, supposedly frustrated by his wife's alleged financial demands before granting him a divorce, orchestrated her killing with the help of the two co-accused.

The three accused—Rajput (30), Alisha Tyagi (38), and her aide Charanjit Kaur alias Dimple (34)—were handed over by the Crime Branch, which was conducting a parallel probe, to the Ulwe police who arrested them.

MUMBAI: The Pant Nagar police on Wednesday arrested a man who had allegedly killed his wife in Ahmedabad on Tuesday and was hiding thereafter in Ghatkopar East.

According to the police, the accused, 28-year-old Ashok Jangam, used to reside with his wife Reena Verma and their two children in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in Ghatkopar East. Around three years ago, he was arrested after he allegedly assaulted his wife and the latter complained to the police. After he was released on bail, the couple moved to Ahmedabad in Gujarat for livelihood purposes, leaving their two children with Reena's parents in Ghatkopar.