'In Delhi, a 36-year-old man was reported dead.'
'It was reported that his death was caused by an electric shock.'
'But the death that seemed accidental'
'turned out to be a murder.'
'The wife, in collusion with her brother-in-law,'
'murdered her husband.'
'In Delhi's Uttam Nagar, a woman named Sushmita'
'has been accused of murdering her husband, Karan Dev.'
What did Sushmita desire?
What did she not get from Karan?
She kept growing apart from Karan.
She should have told me if my son lacked something.
She could have divorced him or taken whatever she wanted.
Murder can't be planned in a day.
They might have planned to kill him in advance.
We often hear that love is blind.
But it could even lead to a murder.
'From Honeymoon to Murder'
My name is Gautam Kumar Mishra.
I work with Dainik Jagran.
Sushmita's in-laws' house
is in Uttam Nagar's Om Vihar.
Earlier, Sushmita lived with her in-laws
and her husband, Karan.
After a few years of their marriage, they moved into a separate flat.
Sushmita, her husband
and her kid lived there.
Everything was going well.
They lived separately. They would also
visit Karan's family often.
Karan's mother, father and brother lived there.
In the month of July,
something happened that ruined their marriage.
It destroyed their relationship.
And no one knows
why that happened.
The police investigation is on. The matter is sub judice
in the court.
They met at a company in Gurugram.
It was IGT, I think. They worked with the same company.
Sushmita lived as a paying guest.
They fell in love there.
Sushmita found out that he liked her.
Karan started liking her more
after learning about her family.
And then, they started dating.
He was even ready and prepared to marry her.
He thought
Sushmita belonged to a decent family.
She was bringing her siblings up.
That's why he trusted her.
He thought she was a good girl.
We didn't demand any dowry.
They gave us their daughter. That's what matters the most.
We bought her the wedding dress
and all the furniture.
Sushmita hated her husband
to such a great extent...
Hate is an appropriate word to use here.
Instead of divorcing her husband,
she thought getting rid of him for good was a better option.
In a span of 10 or 11 years,
maybe they didn't share the ideal
husband-wife relationship.
Maybe there was no intimacy and warmth between them.
There was no camaraderie.
I think that was the reason
behind her rage.
Karan met my mom on Saturday night.
He met my brother and Chiku.
He also met his friends and neighbours.
After that, he met no one.
He didn't know it was his last night.
Sushmita came to our house crying in the morning.
She said Karan had fallen unconscious and he wouldn't move.
She said his body had become stiff.
She told mom all this. Then I woke up.
I also called my uncle on the way and informed him.
So, he sent Rahul there quickly.
Karan's body was cold.
The room was chilled.
He never preferred sleeping in such low temperatures.
There was a mark on Karan's index finger.
The skin was peeled off.
And there was a mark on his chest.
And it was quite dark.
It was visible. And Karan's hand
had also stiffened.
We went to Karan's house in an ambulance.
We picked up Karan's body.
As soon as Kunal picked up the body,
he started frothing at the mouth.
Sushmita asked me to call the doctor at home.
Rahul and his father also suggested
calling the doctor home.
But the doctor was unavailable. So, they rushed him
to the hospital.
I found out that a message had flashed
on Dwarka's DCP's phone.
In Uttam Nagar's Maggo Hospital,
a man was brought in.
They claimed he suffered an electric shock.
The doctors informed the police about it.
And the police found the case suspicious.
We deputed SI Ram Niwas there.
He reached the hospital at the time.
He took the necessary action
and questioned his family.
He questioned everyone initially.
I went there with my staff after we received the information.
His family was standing there.
We received the MLC as soon as we reached.
We questioned the family members.
The family members told us that he suffered an electric shock
and died.
The police insisted
that the dead body should undergo a post-mortem.
It is required legally.
But what happened there
was Sushmita and Rahul
refused to get
the post-mortem done.
They said the body shouldn't undergo a post-mortem.
Rahul is my brother-in-law's son.
They live nearby.
I didn't suspect Rahul
because Sushmita came home.
But why were they against the post-mortem?
I also know that you can't suffer a shock from a charger.
And she also said
that Karan told her that if anything happened to him,
his body shouldn't undergo a post-mortem.
A man wouldn't discuss such things with his wife or friends, right?
Would he tell his family that if he dies,
his body shouldn't undergo a post-mortem?
So, I decided to get it done.
They were trying to convince everyone
that the body shouldn't undergo post-mortem.
When we questioned Sushmita,
she got rude.
She asked why we were questioning her.
She said she was already traumatised by her husband's death.
The injury that the doctors saw on his chest
made them a little suspicious.
They said if he had been electrocuted,
there should have been
an entry and an exit point.
If it were a charger shock, it should have been mild.
But the area was too big.
When they received the dead body after the post-mortem,
they all started screaming
and crying.
Rahul was also present there.
Karan, my son, was born in 1989.
Yes. Becoming a mother brings happiness to every woman.
You can imagine how I feel after losing him.
He was raised with great care.
He was raised like a prince.
A child was born in the family after 28 years.
After his uncle's birth, no one in the family had a child.
His life was simple.
He used to notice small things
and wanted to progress.
He would respect everyone. This was Karan's nature.
Kunal's phone... Everyone in the locality is good.
People lend phones to each other.
Rahul also gave someone his phone.
The one who had Kunal's phone...
Somehow, he got Rahul's phone.
Someone handed it to him.
Kunal thought, 'This is my brother's phone.'
'I'd make a call and ask for my phone.'
Because he needed it for work.
So, the phone was unlocked.
I saw that...
I was about to dial the number. I had not dialled it.
I saw that the Instagram chat was open.
Then I read the chat and scrolled through it.
Then I made a video recording of it.
This is a kind of coincidence
that the chat...
In that...
Everything was written point by point about the murder.
What would happen now? What would happen in the future?
Meaning minute by minute, second by second, everything was in it.
The number of pills that were given.
'What to do next?'
'Should the electric shock be given or not?'
'Where are you? Come here.'
'I can't do it alone.'
So, all these things were in it.
Everything was clear.
Then Rahul went to Sushmita's house.
They stuck a wire on his finger and chest.
Then they put the wire in the switchboard and turned it on.
They thought that there would be no witness within the four walls.
Whatever they would did would never come out.
They gave him sleeping pills with milk
and food.
Even after giving him 15 pills, he did not sleep or die.
They already had a backup plan.
They did not make it on the spot.
They were already on the second plan.
And the second plan was electrocution.
They cut a charger's wire
and used it to electrocute him
to stage an accident.
When a person gets electrocuted, they turn blue.
He was given sleeping pills first, and then he was electrocuted.
He was electrocuted continuously for two hours.
If we consider the case of Muskaan,
then Muskaan was fearless.
She did not care about anything.
She chopped the body. The matter went that far.
But when we see the case of Sushmita, she was scared.
So she never had the courage to strangle someone and kill.
So the technique that Rahul chose for her was such
that the husband was unconscious, so that he could not react.
The current was mild, but it was applied to areas
that could cause death and would give
the impression that he died of an accidental electric shock.
There is clear-cut evidence in this.
There is also a digital footprint.
There is also CCTV footage.
And, you see...
The FSL,
forensic, and crime teams
also found substantial evidence.
Many statements
corroborate the entire incident.
Based on all these things, it is a clear case of murder.
Moreover, the evidence has been removed.
And along with that, there's a criminal conspiracy.
The case has been registered under these sections.
Rahul learned about it.
His father found out. His mother found out.
His sister also found out in the evening.
Around 6-7 pm, they learned that Rahul's phone was missing.
They got suspicious that something happened
because they were all looking for the phone.
The atmosphere was heating up.
They thought he had found something,
which is why he is not giving the phone.
The phone was with me. I hid it. How would anyone find it?
When they learned
that Rahul had been murdered,
their first duty was to go to the police
and report this.
But it didn't happen here.
Why didn't it happen? - The victim's family says
that the funeral was more important for them.
So, I think these things will be revealed
in the police investigation.
Why did it happen? Why was there a delay?
I showed the chat to her mother on my phone.
I didn't show it on Rahul's phone.
I showed it to her on my phone.
Sushmita was shocked to see it.
I asked her what it was.
She said that she didn't do it. It was a fake chat.
Then she admitted that she and Rahul did it.
We recorded the entire video
properly and softly.
'Answer me.'
'What did you get? - Everything was fine.'
'There was no interference. - Nothing.'
'No one interfered with you.'
'No one interfered with you both.'
'He wouldn't have let that happen.'
'That's why we didn't have Karan's post-mortem.'
'Not for any other reason.'
'I gave him sleeping pills.'
'Who gave you thie pills? - Rahul.'
'Since when?'
'Just today.'
'Just once? - Yes.'
'Did Rahul ask you to do that? - Yes.'
'Who gave him the shock?'
Rahul.
If we look at Sushmita's case,
she was a very submissive
and dependent woman.
She fell
in love
and was completely dependent on her lover.
So whatever her lover told her,
she followed point-to-point.
And if we look at her later as well, she was very submissive.
She surrendered herself and explained what happened.
She didn't have an answer.
She was totally dazed.
She was thinking, 'Why did this happen? How did this happen?'
She kept doing whatever she was told over the phone.
I am Advocate Utkarsh Agarwal.
Sushmita's mother reached out to me when she was in Delhi,
on the day when she was taken into custody by the police.
The police were not considering it a murder.
The police believed it to be an accidental death.
The police had even started the paperwork.
Then, Kunal repeatedly pushed the police
and said it was a murder,
but the police didn't pay attention even then.
Then, what Kunal did was bring local reporters
home,
make a video, and make it viral
on YouTube and WhatsApp channels
in the Uttam Nagar area.
Then, there was pressure on the police.
The police arrived at the home
and arrested those three people.
Otherwise, the police would never go to their house.
And these people were having negotiations...
Until that interview took place,
negotiations were going on between Karan's family
and Sushmita and her family.
Karan's family
asked for Sushmita's flat and her child.
They told her to go back to Lucknow,
and they would forget that something like this had ever happened.
What was planned,
what the conspiracy was, and what brainwashing took place
during those three days
are still hidden. The police haven't shed any light on it.
So, my uncle decided that this decision should be made at home.
He said, 'Don't make it public.'
'Okay, don't go out.'
My health was poor.
And these people were trying to pressure my mom.
I used to go to the police station with an application.
They used to send me back,
saying, 'Once the post-mortem report comes, we will see.'
I said, 'She is at my house.'
'I am providing her with breakfast, lunch and dinner.'
It's like I was taking care of Sushmita.
Rahul was at his house.
Uncle tried a lot
to get forgiveness.
And...
Rahul's mother and his sister, Pooja, had also come.
They decided that they would send him far away
if we forgave him.
I said, 'Murder can never be forgiven.'
'It's not the same as stealing or slapping someone.'
'How would the murder be forgiven?'
'Can such things be forgiven?'
Then he said,
'If you have a problem, I'll help raise the baby.'
I said, 'Considering how you raised your two children,'
'we were not brought up that way.'
'Besides, where would you have sent your son?'
'You would've kept him here.'
'Where would you have sent him?'
He would have planned another murder tomorrow.
He killed his own brother.
We have helped raise him.
Rahul may already have a problem with his brother.
It is possible that he was already attracted to his sister-in-law.
We are speculating these things.
It is possible that Rahul told Sushmita something
that made her attracted to him.
She would have thought that her life could be better.
Due to that blindness of love, this murder occurred.
These people considered themselves
smarter than the law.
According to them, there was no loophole in their script.
If you look at this whole matter,
Rahul and Sushmita
are both
educated fools.
Although this is not to be said.
If their chat had been deleted on that mobile,
then people would not have been able to know
that
it was not electrocution,
but an intentional murder.
Your husband lost your life.
I've heard there is evidence
of a video call
and chat till 1 am or 2 am on your Instagram. Is this true?
There was no video call. Normal...
But everything is coming from your number.
In the evening, when my husband left to get some household items,
Rahul Dev came to my house and told me
that he was giving me sleeping pills.
He told me to mix them into the food and serve it to him at night.
Sleeping pills. - Yes.
Rahul is involved in this. Yes. - Rahul Dev.
Why? - Rahul and his father.
Is there any property dispute?
Yes, there is a property dispute.
He has taken revenge on my daughter.
They fight with their uncle every other day.
He comes and threatens her that he will throw her out of the house.
He just came. Ask the neighbours...
I will try to talk to the uncle as well. - Sure.
You will have to talk to him. Talk to him first.
If he speaks on camera,
I will present his point.
Ask the neighbours how many times he came and threatened them.
Do you suspect Sushmita?
I am 100% sure that she is involved in this.
How can you be so sure? On what basis can you say that?
I investigated it.
Do you have proof? - Yes, I have proof.
Did you file a complaint against her? - Yes, I did.
Both of them were involved in this.
Rahul and Sushmita
were having an affair. - Yes. I will tell you the truth.
We did not know about this. The neighbours knew about this.
When you learned about this a year ago, why didn't you take any action?
We did not know about this.
We only found out about this
when the neighbours told us.
The media played a very negative role in this.
Before FIR was registered, the media ran the entire story.
The media did not notice that when Sushmita was
giving a statement,
whatever she said,
she was saying it while sitting with Karan's family.
She was saying it in his house.
She was saying it under coercion.
The media did not even try to find out
whether it was an independent statement
or if someone forced her to say it.
And she was being tortured again and again
by saying 'You killed my son', 'You killed my brother'.
And even after that...
The police didn't know
that they were being held hostage.
The media came, and they told her what to say to them.
And that she'd be arrested after that.
The media should have ensured
that a statement was recorded at the police station
just as one was recorded at home.
She would've felt safe and secure there
and might have been able to tell the truth freely.
Divorce is better than this.
Where mothers are losing their sons,
and daughters are being set on fire,
it is better to get separated.
What will you get by killing?
Okay, my son is gone. He was killed.
Now, how will you live your life?
Do you think you won't be punished?
You may not get a long sentence, but you will be punished.
Many a time, in a relationship
we look for qualities in others
that are not part of our own personality.
So maybe Rahul was as bold and attractive
as she was submissive.
Sushmita was as dependent
as Rahul was independent.
Many times, people ask why you kill someone.
There are many options.
You can choose a legal path.
You can get involved socially.
You can involve your friends.
They will listen if it's a family matter.
You have older brothers. You have people.
At such times, no matter what you say to someone,
they don't understand.
And this is what happened.
Sushmita didn't understand anything.
Rahul didn't understand anything.
Because both of them were bound to each other.
This murder was premeditated, of course.
Sushmita was very angry.
And...
The wound of having to quit
her job.
The wound of raising the kid alone.
She couldn't have taken
a better revenge than that on Karan. Having an affair
with her brother-in-law.
And she exacted it.
We are concerned about the child.
But...
What could his family tell him?
They can't tell him the whole truth.
But as of today, the child is the biggest victim.
His father is no more. His mother is in jail.
So,
he is facing the biggest problem of all.
The child said
that Uncle Rahul would come and he would force me to sleep.
Rahul would ask him
not to tell anyone, including his grandma, that he had come over.
Chiku told us all this recently.
What kind of mother was she?
A mother...
If anyone lays a finger on Chiku in front of me,
I won't spare that person.
Look at the mistake.
He is a very nice and well-mannered child.
She was attracted to Rahul
because he was a good uncle to her son.
What did Sushmita want
which she couldn't get from Karan? She kept getting distant from Karan.
She became so distant that in the end, she decided
not even to look at Karan.
According to her,
she had been married for 11 plus years.
Earlier, the first 7-8 years were very good.
They were planning a life together. They bought a new home.
Jobs were going well.
After that,
Karan asked her to resign and focus on the child
and his education.
She resigned.
Then something happened to Karan, and he started
demeaning and insulting her a lot.
He used to abuse her verbally.
According to Sushmita,
she was nothing more than a piece of meat for Karan.
Sushmita's feelings were
hurt
because she was forced
to resign from work
and was made to stay at home.
She thought, 'Is the child hers alone,'
'not Karan's?'
'Can't both of us take responsibility for the child?'
So, their fights kept happening
internally.
This matter was not getting resolved.
Since this matter was not resolving,
and Karan worked night shifts at a call centre,
her nights were lonely.
She was suffocated.
She was having depression and anxiety.
And she was at a point
where she started realising that somewhere,
she was deprived
of independence, love,
sex, of being a woman,
of being a mother, of being a wife.
Because she was confined in a house.
Now, what happened? The trigger point was
on the last Karva Chauth.
A day before Karva Chauth...
She told me that Karan
raised his hand to her.
He beat her.
And that was something which flipped her mind.
And after that,
I don't know what conspired between Rahul and her,
and that led to the incident in July.
If he slapped her a year ago,
she should've told us.
If he slapped her a year ago, she must have done
or said something wrong.
Maybe she abused him, or she raised her hand.
Therefore, he slapped her.
She told her mother about it, and not us.
On the day of Karva Chauth,
Karan slapped Sushmita.
Their usual fights were still on.
But when a woman observes a Karva Chauth fast,
stays hungry
and prays for her husband's long life,
no woman deserves to be slapped that day,
no matter what the factor was.
Maybe she made a mistake. Maybe there was an argument.
For the husband,
for whom she was hungry and thirsty,
ate 'sargi' in the morning, and prayed
for a long life...
She wrote his end that day.
She thought of getting back at him
after being slapped that way.
Karan started it.
Sushmita ended it.
Love is about giving.
But in this relationship, giving had become difficult.
In this case,
the person who gave
the most was Sushmita's husband,
Karan. He gave his trust, love,
and his life in the end.
If we say that love only teaches to take,
then Sushmita took everything.
A family
has been ruined.
When I met Sushmita,
she didn't cry.
She is not remorseful. She only cries for her child.
Not about the incident.
And...
I was very shocked when I went to jail for the first time.
I asked her if she had any problems
because it was her first time in jail.
When I asked her, she was like, 'No, I don't have a problem.'
'You just try to arrange for my meeting with my son.'
'Otherwise, I will handle everything.'
Basically, I think she is
a little delusional.
A woman will not have any remorse
when she had had enough.
When she is convinced that I have nothing to do with this person.
She disconnects completely.
And she had disconnected from emotional relationship.
And it is very possible
that she disconnected with him on the day of 'karva chauth'.
He was very good in his childhood. He is still very good.
But what can we do now?
Will I ever get a chance? Will he come to me?
I was hoping to see him in my dream.
He didn't even appear in my dream.
He is so upset with me.
The end of this story.
You see, the end of the story is different for everyone.
For Sushmita,
the end is different.
For Karan's family, the end is different.
For Rahul's family, the end is different.
See, be it an accused, a criminal, or even a convict,
but...
The mother-son relationship should at least be sacrosanct.
If she can meet her son,
maybe she will have a better chance of getting back into society.
But if she is thrown out of society,
then I don't think she will be able to survive.
When a woman
finds a way to be liberated,
and on that path,
the one she loves, the one she considers her own...
And it can be anyone, even her brother-in-law.
There is only one path.
That path is the path of happiness.
That is the path based on her choices.
She wants her future to be with her fiance or lover.
It is not dictated by society
or her surroundings.
The world will not decide it for her.
Her path is her own path.
If anyone comes in between,
it is an obstacle. It will be eliminated and removed.
This is not a new India.
The only difference is
that today's woman is not submissive.
Today's woman knows
what she wants
and what she has to give to the world.
Anyone's pressure on her,
whether it is family pressure, colleague pressure,
husband pressure...
No one can put pressure on her,
until and unless she herself happily takes that pressure on herself.