Police question ex-husband in murder case

Mumbai: Two weeks after small-time actress Kritika Chaudhary’s murder, Amboli police has arrested her estranged husband Vijay Dwivedi in a cheating case, late Saturday.

The police is now questioning him in relation to the phone calls between him and the deceased where Dwivedi could be heard asking for them to get back together, while she was reluctant, citing the various incidents of him cheating on her with other women as the reason. The police is likely to investigate Dwivedi’s role in Chaudhary’s murder.

According to police officers attached to the Amboli police station, Dwivedi has various cheating cases registered against him. He had married the deceased in 2012 and the couple had shifted to Mumbai from Uttar Pradesh post their marriage.

Speaking to The Asian Age, Bharat Gaikwad, a senior police inspector attached to the Amboli police station, said, “We have arrested Dwivedi in a cheating case and are also trying to ascertain his role in his estranged wife’s murder. He will be questioned about his alleged conversation where he offered her to reconcile.”

Late on Saturday, the police received a tip-off that he was seen in Jogeshwari.  Following this, the police officials arrested him in a cheating case that has been pending against him since a long time.