Cops investigating killing of SIDBI assistant GM say that duo was busy wiping out evidence when they arrived at the crime scene
Santana Seshadri had attempted to kill himself in 2005 and 2011 (right) Seshadri’s son Arvind who is a co-accused in the crime
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.
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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.
The SIDBI officer’s quarters at Veera Desai Road, Andheri West, where Seshadri was murdered
The accused were later produced in the holiday court and remanded to police custody for five days. Seshadri, who worked at the SIDBI’s Andheri branch, earned a salary of Rs 2 lakh every month, but did not give any of it to his wife or son. According to the police, after committing the crime, the accused were hoping to flee with his savings and life insurance money to Netherlands or Canada.
Seshadri had allegedly attempted to kill himself in 2005 and 2011, and the duo tried to take advantage of this, Senior Inspector Nilesh Bagul said. Speaking with mid-day, Police Inspector Abdul Rauf Shaikh said, “The accused had planned every aspect of the murder. Jaisheela strangulated him, after which her son slit his wrist, to make it look like a suicide. But, they panicked when the blood spread in the entire house. They then decided to throw him off their balcony.”
What made the police suspicious was that Seshadri had fallen down head first. “This is not typically observed in such kind of suicide cases. We then checked the house, and found that attempts had been made to clean the blood smeared on the wall. Seshadri’s blood-stained clothes were hidden in the washing machine. A pillow with blood marks had also been kept in the upper floor,” Shaikh added. On interrogation, the duo confessed to the crime. “If we had reached the residence even 30 minutes late, the entire evidence would have been destroyed,” Bagul added.
Jaisheela told the police that she had married Seshadri 27 years ago, and faced a lot of harassment from him. “He regularly demanded dowry. They alleged that Seshadri had kept both of them at a rehabilitation centre and also gave them electric shocks five years ago. Since then, they had wanted to take revenge.” The police said that they were cross-checking all facts.
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