Overview
- Arbaz Khan disappeared after leaving Mumbra for Dadar on April 3, and his decomposed body was found stuffed in a drum in a Vasai drain on April 5.
- Call-detail and location data showed Khan and nurse Mehjabeen Sheikh were in Vasai the day he vanished, which led officers to detain her for questioning.
- Investigators say Sheikh confessed to a money-motivated plot in which Khan was tied up and beaten with plastic pipes before his body was sealed in a drum and dumped.
- Police arrested Sheikh and her brother Tariq on May 7, while teams are searching for her husband Hasan and an associate identified in reports as Mujazzam or Mojjam Pathan.
- An FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita cites murder, kidnapping linked to extortion or killing, and destruction of evidence, and the case is being likened to Meerut’s 2025 “blue drum” murder.