When school certificate exposed 4-month-old killing

BLIND MURDER | When questioned by police, Richa and Dipesh spun multiple versions of Saurabh’s death

- Our Staff Reporter

A simple school transfer certificate request blew the lid off a coldblooded murder that had remained buried for four months.

The killing of 35-year-old marketing executive Saurabh Jain, initially passed off as an accident, was in fact a chilling plot hatched by his wife Richa Jain and her paramour Dipesh Bhargav.

Saurabh, a resident of Ashok Nagar, vanished in February 2023. Richa and Dipesh later told others he had died in an accident and even produced a fake death certificate. With no immediate suspicion, the duo managed to erase Saurabh’s presence from everyone's lives, almost.