Investigations into the brutal murder of the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) assistant general manager by his wife and son has revealed that the duo had decided to commit the crime at 4 am on Friday, and had even set an alarm. Both of them were busy wiping out evidence, when the police arrived and foiled their attempts.

On Saturday evening, the Amboli police took the accused Jaisheela, 52, and her son Arvind, 26, to the SIDBI officer’s quarters at Veera Desai Road, Andheri West. Based on their statements, the police recreated the crime scene. Santana Krishnan Seshadri, 53, had been killed, before he was thrown off from the balcony of his seventh floor residence. His wife and son were hoping to pass of the crime as suicide.