Love Affair at Gym And Plot to Kill Husband: An Insight of 3-Year-Old Murder Mystery

Panipat: Horrific revelation in a three-year-old murder case of a Haryana businessman has left everyone shocked as the police arrested the victim’s wife for plotting a murky murder of her husband for the sake of another love affair. The murder mystery, which remained unsolved for around 3 years despite all the efforts by the Haryana police, eventually got solved by a WhatsApp message. A police officer's keen eye immediately drew the sequence based on that WhatsApp message and brought the mystery to the conclusion by arresting the accused woman.

According to the police, it was on December 15, 2021, when a person named, Vinod Bharara, was shot dead at his home by the shooter identified as Dev Sunar, a truck driver. It then came to fore that the same truck driver was involved in an accident that had left victim, Vinod Bharara, seriously injured.

One WhatsApp Message Solved the Murder Mystery

When police arrested Dev Sunar, he misled the police by saying that he shot Vinod dead because he had refused an out-of-court settlement in the accident case. Following his confession of the murder, he was arrested and the case was put in a cold storage.

However, later, a WhatsApp message popped up on the phone of district police chief and IPS officer Ajit Singh Shekhawat. The message urged the police officer to look into the matter again and raised suspicion that someone very close to Vinod planned his murder. Police found that the message was sent by Vinod's brother Pramod, who stays in Australia. When the officer closely scanned the files, he sensed something wrong.

The officer explained, "When I studied the case, I wondered why anyone would kill another man just because he had refused to settle an accident case. A case of rash driving does not attract a heavy penalty and accused often get bail, but the punishment for murder is far more severe."

As police probed this angle, they found that Dev Sunar was close to Sumit, a gym trainer who knew Vinod Bharara's wife Nidhi well. Further the police zeroed in on the suspects and questioned them, and their statements provided the missing pieces of the puzzle.

It surfaced that Nidhi Bharara, Vinod Bharara's wife, met Sumit at a gym. The two grew close and an affair began. Vinod reportedly got wind of this and confronted his wife, which led to frequent arguments at home. The businessman also had face-offs with Sumit and asked him to stay away from his wife. As the altercations continued, Nidhi and Sumit allegedly plotted to kill Vinod, the probe has found.

During interrogation, Sumit disclosed that they approached Dev Sunar, a truck driver from Punjab, for the hit job. The truck driver was offered Rs 10 lakh, on which he agreed.

Then a pick-up van was arranged and Sunar rammed this vehicle into Vinod's car on January 5, 2021. Vinod suffered serious injuries but survived. Frustrated over the failure of the plan, Nidhi and Sumit went for plan B.

For which, Sunar visited Vinod's home and asked him to settle the accident case. When he refused, Sunar shot him dead. On joining the dots, police took Nidhi and Sumit into custody, following the two admitted to the crime.