MUMBAI: The Mumbai police on Monday claimed that private bank executive
Siddharth Sanghavi (39) was killed by 26-year-old
Sarfaraz Shaikh, a fabricator with a civil contractor who was picked up by cops the previous evening, in a
failed robbery attempt. Police ruled out any professional rivalry and jealousy theories.
This contradicts claims made earlier by the Navi Mumbai police that Shaikh had told them he was not the killer but had been paid to transport the body from Sanghavi’s
HDFC Bank office at
Lower Parel and dispose of it. Navi Mumbai police had then handed Shaikh over to their Mumbai counterparts.
Police said Shaikh, who has been working for three years in the Kamala Mills Compound, where the banker had his office, claimed that he had picked Sanghavi as a robbery target at random. Police said he single handedly killed Sanghavi in the parking lot, dumped the body in Sanghavi’s car, drove 60km to Kalyan, pulled out the body and dragged it for around 40ft before dumping it in the bushes on Haji Malang Road.
