The police’s surprise move of arresting Chintan Upadhyay yesterday came after the artist confessed that he had plotted the murder of his estranged wife, Hema, and her lawyer, Harish Bhambhani, and had even paid Rs 22 lakh to the killers for the job. What’s more, Chintan — a well-known contemporary artist — drew a detailed storyboard to explain to the killers how they should carry out the murder.

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