Indian-origin man in Carmel asks his staff one question, lands in jail for conspiracy to kill wife
Darshan Soni, an Indian-origin man in Carmel, Indiana, was arrested after a brief investigation into a question that he asked one of his employees unraveled several conspiracies that he had been hatching to kill his wife.
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According to the court documents obtained by FOX59, the investigation into Soni began on May 12 when the cops received an anonymous tip that Soni was conspiring to murder his wife. The tipster said Soni asked his employees at the Compass Property Group where he could get a silencer, and the murder was supposed to take place on May 16. Soni was also seen picking up a wig from the residence of an employee, the tipster told the cops.
The employee whose help Soni asked for confided in the tipster that Soni had previously asked them if they were willing to kill his wife and how much money they would take. The employee, according to the tipster, agreed to help Soni and adviced how he could take his cell phone to a different location when the murder would take place.
The police contacted the employee and they agreed to cooperate with the police but the employee alerted Soni that cops were after him.
Salty smoothie, poison from India to kill wife
The investigators talked to Soni to find out whether she had been poisoned before. The wife told them that she had severe nerve pain in November 2024. She told the investigators that on one occasion, she thought her smoothie tasted salty. And another day, she found a white clumpy substance in one of her smoothies and when she brought this up with her husband, Darshan told her it might be the detergent.
The employee whose help Darshan sought told the police that Darshan told him earlier that he had purchased some type of poison from India.
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Sojni was obsessively reading a book called "Rise and Kill First", the employee said.
Cops then installed a GPS device and an audio recording device on the employee who was going to meet Darshan. In the recorded conversation, Soni said there had been no divorces in his family for several generations and he did not want his kids to have to go through that. Soni was arrested on May 16 and was transported to the Hamilton County Jail.
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