Kannada actor Maria Monica Susayraj has not deviated from the statement she had given to the crime branch, following her arrest in the Neeraj Grover murder case.
Kannada actor Maria Monica Susayraj has not deviated from the statement she had given to the crime branch, following her arrest in the Neeraj Grover murder case.
Rakesh Maria, joint commissioner of police (crime), said that her six-page confession statement, recorded before a magistrate, completely corroborated with the police story. While a confession to the police is not admissible in a court of law, one before a magistrate is.
“Susayraj has stuck to the version she gave us. This has strengthened the case further against her and her boyfriend,” said Maria, who received a copy of the confession statement on Friday. Susayraj, who had initially misled the police, cracked after crime branch sleuths seized the Hyundai Santro car she and her boyfriend, Emile Jerome Matthew — a naval officer from Kochi, had used to dispose of Grover's body, after chopping it into pieces, at remote Manor.
Sources said that the actor broke down and confessed to the crime first time when she was brought in front of the car in the crime branch (unit 9) office in Bandra. The sleuths found blood stains in the boot of the car. According to them, blood had seeped out from the bags carrying the chopped body parts of Grover.
In her statement to the magistrate, Susayraj repeated the story of Grover coming to her Malad home on May 6; she getting a call from Matthew in Kochi while Grover was in her flat; of Matthew getting enraged on hearing Grover's voice in the background.
She told the magistrate about a jealous Matthew arriving in Mumbai by an early morning flight the next day — on May 7 — and heading straight to her Malad home. Entering her flat, he found Grover sleeping naked in her bedroom. She said the men confronted each other and at one point, Grover dashed into the kitchen and came out brandishing a knife. She told the magistrate about Matthew seizing the knife from Grover and stabbing him to death.
She also recounted in details the couple's cover-up plan. They chopped Grover's body into pieces for three and half hours, using the bread knife Susayraj had purchased from the Hyper City mall, Malad, along with three travel bags, air fresheners, window drapes and bed sheets.
With Susayraj's statement matching police account to the T, Maria said, “We don't want to waste time and are trying to file the chargesheet at the earliest.”
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