Sandhya son had accomplice: Cops

S Ahmed Ali TNN

March 15, 2014
Mumbai: The city crime branch believes a person helped Raghuveer dispose of the body of his mother, Sandhya Singh, after he had killed her accidentally.
    The suspicion, revealed in the chargesheet submitted to the Vashi court, is the reason why the police sought special permission from the court for further investigation under CrPC 173 (8).
    The police said they were looking for Raghuveer’s girlfriend, Shreya, who is missing from her Bangalore home.
    “We want to question her as she was the only person along with Raghuveer on the fateful day of December 13, 2012, when Sandhya returned home from the bank,” a police officer said. “After that nobody saw Sandhya coming out of her residence and it was days later that her remains were found on the marshy land that is just a stone’s throw away from her home in Nerul.” Sandhya was the sister of yesteryear actresses Sulakshna and Vijeta Pandit. The city crime branch on Friday submitted a 1,400-page chargesheet containing evidence. The chargesheet also mentioned 148 witnesses. There are half-a-dozen very important witnesses. One of these is a person who was sold Sandhya’s gold-plated watch by Raghuveer.
    In the chargesheet, the police heavily relied on circumstantial evidence and discrepancies. They stated that the circumstantial evidence suggested that Sandhya was murdered inside her residence and a drain cleaner was among the things believed to have been used to dispose her body of inside a bathtub.
    They said that a day after Sandhya went missing, Raghuveer hosted a drug party at home. Witnesses told the police that Raghuveer had locked one of the bathrooms.

Sandhya Singh