Mumbai Crime: Woman, lover murder husband, bury him under kitchen floor

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The police detained a 28-year-old woman on Tuesday for allegedly killing her husband with her lover, and burying the body under the kitchen floor of her house in Dahisar east. While the woman was to be arrested later as the FIR was in the process of being filed, police are looking for her lover. The murder was unearthed when the woman's brother-in-law coaxed her six-year-old daughter into telling him if she knew what had happened to her father. The child had seen her mother and her lover with the body and told her uncle so.

The Dahisar police said the murder took place on May 20 and the accused approached them the next day saying her husband had not returned from work. The accused Rashida Shaikh, stayed with her husband Rais Shaikh, 32, and two kids (a daughter and a two and half year son). Rais worked in a cloth shop. The police said Rashida later confessed to the crime.

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What happened

The police said Rashida was in an extra marital relationship with Aniket Vishwakarma, a neighbour. But last month Rais caught the duo in a compromising position. The police said the duo slit Rais's throat and buried his body in a pit under the kitchen. His daughter was playing outside with her brother, and came into the house. She saw the duo burying Rais's body. Rashida allegedly told her if she revealed what she had seen, she would also kill and bury her the same way.

Child reveals what she saw

Rais's brother Anis, found his phone often switched off and when he asked Rashida she would say he was at work. He then asked Rais's friend Adil Shaikh to tell the police that he was missing. So Adil lodged a missing person complaint on May 25. "Anis came to Mumbai from his village in UP three days ago. He questioned his niece, who told him what had happened, and he approached us," said a police officer.

"There were tiles on the floor everywhere but the kitchen floor was plastered. When we dug that portion, we recovered the deceased's body. After a detailed panchnama we have sent it for autopsy to Bhagwati hospital," the officer added. He said they were registering an FIR to arrest Rashida and Vishwakarma was at large.