25-05-2025
Mumbai man plots wife's murder over financial dispute, hires killers for Rs 6 lakh
A Navi Mumbai man hired contract killers for Rs 6 lakh to murder his wife over a financial dispute. Six people have been arrested so far, including three from Navi Mumbai and two contract killers from victim, 27-year-old chemist Alvina Kishorsingh Rajput, also known as Alvina Adamali Khan, was brutally murdered just 50 metres from her residence on May 18. A masked assailant approached her as she was returning home at night and slit her throat. She collapsed on the spot and died from excessive revealed that her husband, Kishor Singh Rajput, a pharmacist by profession and her business partner, masterminded the murder.
The couple married in 2021 and jointly ran a medical store. However, their relationship soured over financial disputes. According to police, Alvina had invested Rs 15 lakh in their business and demanded the money back before agreeing to a divorce, something Rajput was unwilling or unable to Kumar Landge, Additional Commissioner of Police, said that Rajput feared that even after repaying the money, he wouldn't get the divorce and so he plotted her then allegedly approached Alisha Tyagi, a salon owner from Uttar Pradesh, who agreed to help execute the plan for Rs 6 lakh. She received Rs 5 lakh in advance and roped in her maid, Charanjit Kaur alias Dimple, to connect with two contract killers from Navi Mumbai Crime Branch arrested Rajput, Tyagi, and Kaur and handed them over to the Ulwe police. All three were remanded in police custody until May the two hired killers from Punjab, cousins Sukhpreet Singh and Gurpreet Singh, were tracked down and arrested by the Noida Special Tak Force on May interrogation, Sukhpreet revealed he had shifted to Mumbai in 2022 along with his cousin. There, he met Tyagi, who offered him the contract. Sukhpreet confessed to ordering a knife online and executing the murder with Gurpreet after conducting surveillance on the victim's routine. The two killers are now being handed over to local authorities for further are also probing Tyagi's salon business and her deeper involvement in the Watch
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