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Panvel murder: 'Riyaz planned Urvashi’s murder, took her brother to cops, too'
Updated On: 23 December, 2022 08:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Anurag Kamble
Navi Mumbai cops say accused plotted the murder as Urvashi pressured him to marry her after attending relative’s wedding; Khan kept abreast of investigation to avoid raising suspicion
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Riyaz Khan and Urvashi Vaishnav
Riyaz Khan, accused of killing Urvashi Vaishnav, planned the murder after attending a wedding at her hometown in Rajasthan, said cops. Police officers said that after returning from the wedding on December 11, Vaishnav kept pressuring Khan to marry her, hence Khan roped in his friend Imran Sheikh and murdered her on December 13. To avoid raising suspicion, he kept in touch with her family and even accompanied her brother when he went to file a missing complaint with Nerul police on December 14.
The case came to light after Panvel cops recovered the body of a woman from the Gadhi river in Panvel. Police officers identified the woman as Vaishnav, 28, with the help of her sandal. Thereafter, cops arrested Khan and Sheikh for the murder. A police officer privy to the investigation said, “Riyaz, the prime accused, knew Urvashi’s family and were in touch. He used to pick up Urvashi from the Koparkhairane home and drop her to Sana bar, where she worked. He had picked her up in her own car on December 13 too.”
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