Spiteful woman conspires two murders in Munirka

A jealous woman instigated her lover to murder his wife and her roommate in south Delhi's Munirka last month. Police said the new wife had taunted her about being the "other woman", provoking the killings.

The bodies of the two women - one of them beheaded - were found in separate places in Munirka last month.

Police have arrested one man and the woman and are looking for two others
The arrested are identified as Mini Sangam and Jeevan. Mini hails from Shillong in Meghalaya while Jeevan is from Nepal. Arjun and Govind are still at large, police said.

The crime was first noticed on November 18 when a young woman's body was recovered wrapped in polythene outside a temple in Munirka.

A week later, a headless body of another woman was found, half a kilometer away from the temple, inside Munirka village's sewer.

With the identity of both the bodies still a mystery then, several police teams were formed to crack the cases.

On the very next day, police said, a person identified the second body to be of Sushma Rai, a native of Assam.

The witness told police that Sushma had been missing since November 16, and he then led the investigators to a rented house where she had been staying with a Nepali woman Nayesha.

During investigation, it was found out that Nayesha had also been missing from the place for the last 10-12 days.

Investigators noticed that the women's rented house was barely 100 metres away from the temple from where Nayehs'a body was found and only 500 metres from where Mini's body was found.

With both the cases starting to look related to each other, police got the mobile call details of Mini and found out a bunch of people with whom she had been in contact in the last few days before her disappearance.

Police said the two women were spa workers and were in touch with a group of persons hailing from Nepal.

This group was identified as consisting of Jeevan, Govind and Arjun. It was also learnt that this group members had rented accommodation in south Delhi, and used to help people from Nepal or with Nepali roots, get rented houses in Munirka and nearby areas.

Landlords of these properties revealed to police that the trio had left Munirka village in the evening of November 25 and were not seen again since then.

While Jeevan and Govind were learnt to be living alone, Arjun was said to be living with two children, reportedly from an earlier marriage. The cell phones of the trio were switched off.  However, the last location of some of the many numbers being used by them were found to be along an international border.

Continuing investigation brought into the picture another woman named Mini Sangam, who was reported to be in close relationship with Arjun, and was learnt to be taking care of his children as a foster mother. Neha was also found missing.

On December 9, information was received that Jeevan was expected to arrive at Anand Vihar ISBT for boarding a Delhi-Sonauli bus which would take him to the Indo-Nepal International border. A police team nabbed Jeevan at the ISBT.

During his interrogation, Jeevan disclosed that a large sum of money earned by Sushma and Nayesha, which they used to deposit with Arjun for safe custody, had been accumulated. Though both the women were pressing hard for their money, Arjun, had developed other ideas.

Jeevan further disclosed that Arjun, who was in a live-in relationship with Mini, decided to exploit the soft corner that deceased Sushma had towards him in order to avoid paying her dues.

"Arjun clandestinely married Sushma a day after Karwa Chauth and managed to convince her that from now onwards, their assets and liabilities were common," said R P Upadhyay, Joint Commissioner of Police (southeast).

However, one day, in order to spite Mini, Sushma - who used to be jealous of Mini for her closeness with Arjun - disclosed to her that she had married Arjun.

"This was the precipitating point for Mini, who, thereafter, became the prime motivator and instigator for the trio to eliminate Sushma at any cost," Upadhyay added.

Over the following days, several plans were hatched and finally, in the wee hours of November 17 Sushma was brutally murdered by the trio, beheaded and dumped in a nearby sewer using its manhole.

 The story, however, did not end there as Nayesha, who was also owed money by the trio, was the closest friend and roommate of Sushma and was in the knowledge of her marriage with Arjun.

"Accordingly, within the next 24 hours of the murder of Sushma, Nayesha was also killed and her body was dumped along the road side in a black plastic sack," said a police officer.

With the help of technical analysis and information given by Jeevan, Mini was also arrested on December 10.