Bail plea of co-accused in murder rejected

Mumbai: A Mumbai sessions court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Khushi Sahjwani (42), co-accused in the murder of 28-year-old finance manager of a salon, Kriti Vyas.

Additional session’s judge Anil Laddhad rejected co-accused Sahjwani’s bail application. A police officer confirmed that her bail was rejected on merit. “During the investigation, we connected all the dots and found that there was ample evidence against her. That is the reason why the court rejected her bail,” he said.

Sahjwani and Siddhesh Tamhankar (28), both colleagues of the victim, were arrested in May this year. Sahjwani and Tamhankar worked as an account executive and account manager, respectively, at a salon chain in suburban Andheri, and used to report at work to the victim. Vyas was allegedly killed because she had issued a memo to Tamhankar for not working properly.

The case was cracked after a DNA test of the blood samples found in Sahjwani’s car. Vyas went missing on March 16 and her family, after scouring CCTV images of Grant Road and Mumbai Central railway stations to locate her, filed a missing person’s complaint at D.B. Marg police station. Her body is yet to be found.

Vyas’s family told the police that she used to board the 9.11am Virar-bound suburban train from Grant Road to get to work at the salon in Andheri. The case was later handed over to the crime branch which made the two arrests.