Mumbai police probe if brother of ‘matka queen’ was also a target
The trio had conducted a recce of the marriage hall where Asha’s son was to get married on December 10 and had reached the venue but did not carry out the killing since the main sharpshooter did not turn up. December 25, 2020 3:24:44 am
A 19-year-old woman and the youth were arrested on January 1 for allegedly murdering the woman after her body was found on the staircase of the building where the party was held.
THE MUMBAI police, who arrested five persons for planning to bump off
‘matka queen’ Jaya Chheda and her sister Asha, are probing if Jaya’s brother Kiran, who operated the matka empire in her absence, was also a target. Kiran is believed to be outside the country and the police have received information that he too may have been on the radar of the accused persons.
Matka ‘queen’, sister were to be killed at nephew’s wedding this month: Mumbai Police
During the course of interrogation, the accused told the police that on December 10, two of them Mohd Javed and Mohd Darzi had reached the marriage hall in Chembur where Asha’s son was to get married to eliminate the sisters. December 24, 2020 1:29:04 am
Jaya along with five others were convicted for the murder of Suresh in 2013 and awarded life imprisonment. (Representational)
TWO OF the five persons arrested by the Mumbai police for allegedly plotting to murder Jaya Chheda who operates one of the biggest matka gambling networks in the country and her sister Asha, had plans to bump off the sisters on the day Asha’s son was to get married.
Kapadia runs textiles and colour chemical business.
More than 12 years after Suresh Bhagat, the head of a syndicate of “matka” gambling, was murdered and his wife Jaya Chedda conspired about it, the Mumbai Police last week arrested Suresh’s brother Vinod (69), along with four others, for allegedly conspiring to kill Jaya (57) and her sister Asha Bhatt.
The police are trying to find if there is a financial reason behind the Rs 60-lakh supari given to contract killers or if it was Vinod plotting revenge for his brother’s murder.
Jaya, who along with five others, including her son Hitesh and lover Suhas Rege, was convicted of Suresh’s murder in 2013, has been out on bail since the past year. Suresh was killed on June 13, 2008, as his car was rammed by a truck on the Alibag-Pen road when he was returning home from a court hearing.