Hema Upadhyay Murder Case: All You Need To Know

Hours after he was arrested Monday, Shivkumar Rajbhar, one of the accused in the murder of artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani, told police that he and four others eliminated the duo in Mumbai after Hema defaulted on a payment for an idol made by his employer, Vidyadhar alias Vidya, a metal fabrication artist who is missing and is prime suspect. But sources in Mumbai Police are not ready to buy Shivkumar’s claim that Hema was murdered for defaulting on an idol payment and said they are still probing the contract killing angle.Hema’s estranged husband, contemporary artist Chintan Upadhyay, has been questioned regarding phone calls he made to Vidyadhar recently.