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Gujarat Man Confesses to Three Murders After Reporting One
Police in Gujarat are investigating three alleged murders from 2022.
A man named Madhavdas Sadhu first told police that his grandmother-in-law had been killed by other people.
Police questioned the person he accused, who denied knowing about the killing.
Madhavdas then reportedly admitted that he and his wife, Urmila, killed the woman.
Police say the couple also killed Madhavdas’s mother and sister-in-law.
The victims’ deaths were allegedly made to look like illness or other causes.
One body was reportedly hidden in a cement-filled drum and later buried.
Police believe property and hiding earlier crimes may have been motives, but the investigation is not finished.
Madhavdas Sadhu initially reported that his grandmother-in-law, Shantaben Vasava, had been murdered by his wife and her cousin.
Police say Madhavdas later admitted that he and his wife, Urmila, killed Shantaben in October 2022.
The couple allegedly killed Madhavdas’s bedridden mother, Manjulaben Sadhu, and reported that she died from paralysis.
They also allegedly strangled Madhavdas’s sister-in-law Bharti and attributed her death to tuberculosis.
Police say the killings involved property motives and efforts to conceal the deaths; further investigation is underway.
- Who
- Madhavdas Sadhu and his wife, Urmila, are accused in the deaths of Shantaben Vasava, Manjulaben Sadhu, and Bharti.
- What
- Police say Madhavdas confessed to three alleged killings after initially providing false information about one of them.
- Where
- The case involves Kosamba in Gujarat’s Surat district, as well as locations connected to the disposal and cremation of the bodies.
- When
- The alleged killings occurred in 2022, including Shantaben’s death on October 7 and Bharti’s death on February 25.
- Why
- Police allege that property motives and attempts to conceal earlier killings were involved.
Key facts
- Main accused
- Madhavdas Sadhu
- Other accused
- His wife, Urmila
- Victims
- Shantaben Vasava, Manjulaben Sadhu, and Bharti, also known as Bhagwati
- Reported period
- 2022
- Alleged method
- Strangulation with a pillow
- Alleged concealment
- Shantaben’s body was placed in a cement-filled drum and later buried in a verandah pit
- Investigation status
- Legal proceedings have begun and further investigation is ongoing
Quotes
Surat Crime Branch police release
Official police release describing the alleged confession and concealment of Shantaben Vasava’s body.
“Manjulaben Sadhu, mother of Madhavdas Sadhu, had suffered paralysis around 2021, and she was bedridden with sores on parts of her body. The couple allegedly strangled her with a pillow and told relatives and villagers that she had died due to paralysis. Her cremation was subsequently carried out at the Chakli Talav crematorium in Dholka.”
rediff.com
“Madhavdas said that on the night of October 7, 2022, he and Urmila killed his grandmother-in-law Shantaben Vasava with a pillow while she was sleeping. They put her body in a drum, poured three bags of cement mixed with water over it, closed the drum and kept it inside the house.”
rediff.com
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