Cops to scrutinise digital evidence in Hema Upadhyay murder

With less than 50 hours left to produce Chintan Upadhyay in court, the police plans to compare mobile locations and call records of Chintan, Vidhyadhar and a Bangalore-based person from whom it recovered chloroform, to check if they had conspired to kill Hema Upadhyay.

Officials believe that if the circumstantial evidence they have match with the digital evidence, it would strengthen their case at court on Monday.

Police sources has informed The Asian Age that the memory cards, iPad, portable hard disk and a pen drive which were recovered from Chintan’s Delhi house would be sent to FSL Kalina where in the presence of a police officer from the Kandivali police station, they would be scrutinised.

Officials will prepare their questions based on what they recover from the memory cards, iPad, portable hard disk and pen drive. “A list of questions will be made first, then we will cross check with what Chintan gave in his statements earlier and later we will further question him,” said a police source.

Also officials said they would deploy a few specialists to interpret the meaning of some sketches made by Chintan. Meanwhile, while officials from the Kandivali police station are reading the handwritten personal diary of Chintan to check if he has mentioned any thing related to the murder in the diary.

The estranged husband of deceased artist Hema Upadhyay was arrested for the murder of his wife on December 22, and was in police custody till January 1. On Friday, the court extended his custody till January 4. The double murder came to light after the bodies of Hema and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani were found stuffed in two boxes in a drain in suburban Kandivali.