An unhappy married life behind murders, say police
JAIPUR: An unhappy sexual relationship with his wife was one of the reasons why the accused got her murdered in Jaipur recently, police said.
Shweta Tiwari, 34, was found killed in her apartment in Sector 26 of Pratap Nagar on January 7. A day after, her 21-month-old son’s body was also found behind the building.
After investigations, police arrested her husband, Rohit Tiwari, 35, on the charges of plotting the murders. His friend, Saurabh Choudhary, 29, was also arrested for killing the two.
Tiwari, an official with a stateowned oil company, and Choudhary, a handicrafts businessman, are in police custody now.
Deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Jaipur East, Rahul Jain said Rohit told police that he was not satisfied with his wife and would often go to Mumbai for paid sex. He would contact call girls through his mobile phone, said the police officer, quoting the accused.
“Tiwari said he and his wife often quarrelled over infertility. He said both of them abused each other. They called each other infertile,” Jain said.
Shweta, whose maiden name was Mishra before of the marriage and lived in Kanpur, met Rohit Tiwari of Delhi on July 10, 2010. They got engaged the same year in October and got married on January 24, 2011.
Jain said families of the couple had arguments over the wedding venue itself. The man’s family wanted the venue to be in Delhi, while the woman’s parents wanted it to take place in Kanpur.
Later, they settled for Ghaziabad, he said. “Even on the wedding day, the two families had arguments when Shweta’s family objected to loud music,” he added.
The couple had a son through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in March 2018.
Jain said Rohit and Saurabh became friends during the former’s posting in Udaipur in 2016. Saurabh came to a private function of Rohit’s neighbour Hari Vikas whose wife was friendly with Shweta. In April 2019, Vikas came to Jaipur for treatment and stayed in a rented house in Sanganer. Saurabh would often come to visit him. During his Jaipur visits, he would invite Rohit over drinks.
The DCP said Rohit and Saurabh would often go out for drinks. Shweta considered Saurabh as her brother. “It was over drinks that two discussed their disturbed marriages with each other. Saurabh told Rohit that he was living separated from his wife and Rohit told him about his disturbed marital life. Recently they struck a deal – to kill each other’s wives,” Jain said, after interrogation of the accused.
The DCP said Rohit confessed to having planned Shweta’s murder in August last year, but couldn’t gather enough courage. “We found newspaper clippings on his mobile phone related to murder of wife by husband,” the police officer said.
Rohit had earlier told police that he got his son killed because he wanted to erase his “past history” and presence of a son could impede chances of his remarriage.
Talking about how they zeroed in on Rohit during interrogation before his arrest, additional DCP Manoj Choudhary said the purported message for ransom was in Rohit’s phone a day before the murders took place.
“This made us suspicious about him. Also, when he came home after learning that his wife had been killed, he was shouting, ‘Where’s my son?’ even though he hadn’t been told about the missing son,” the officer added.