Overview
- Police in Mumbai said Wednesday they arrested the husband, Sakaram Chaudhary, along with three alleged accomplices in the Sakinaka case.
- Investigators say he paid Rs 6.7 lakh to hire Shankar Dangi, Babu alias Raghav alias Amarchand Gayri, and Dinesh Gayri to kill his wife and stage a hanging.
- Her body was found on October 14, 2024, in the couple’s Sakinaka home, and police first filed an Accidental Death Report, a routine step when a death appears unintended, after an inconclusive post-mortem in Mumbai.
- After her father pressed for reinvestigation, Rajasthan authorities exhumed the body and a second post-mortem found strangulation, which led to a Zero FIR—a placeholder complaint that enables transfer across states—and moved the case to Mumbai Police.
- Officers said Chaudhary confessed during a fourth round of questioning and cited an affair with a woman identified as Dimple Chaudhary as the motive after two failed attempts to kill his wife.