Married woman kills lover in Vasai with the help of husband; stuffs his body in a green drum

The deceased was a resident of Mumbra and worked as an engineer with a prominent real estate developer in Dombivali.

Another murder case involving a drum has made the headlines. The news comes from Vasai, where a married woman allegedly killed her lover with the help of her husband. They then stuffed the man’s body in a green drum. The deceased is identified as ArbazMaqsood Ali Khan, 26, a resident of Mumbra who worked as an engineer with a prominent real estate developer in Dombivali.

Lover’s body gets stuffed in a green drum by a married woman and her husband in Vasai.

A relationship began with late-night chats and romantic messages and later ended with a brutal murder. ArbazMaqsood Ali Khan, 26, an engineer, was beaten to death and stuffed inside a green drum and dumped in a secluded drain in Vasai by his married lover, her husband and two accomplices after he stopped sending her money. The Mumbra police have now arrested the 25-year-old woman and her brother for allegedly murdering her lover with the help of her husband and another accomplice. The woman’s husband and his friend are currently on the run.

More on the brutal murder of the lover and stuffing him inside a green drum.

According to the police, since 2021, Khan had been in a relationship with MehajabeenKhatunEkran Sheikh, 25, a resident of Vasai. They said that the affair initially appeared genuine, with frequent conversations and affectionate exchanges between the two. However, police claimed that Mehajabeen gradually began asking Khan for money, which he regularly transferred to her bank account over the years. Police said the relationship soured when Khan allegedly stopped sending money to Mehajabeen every month. This prompted her to allegedly plot his murder and her husband, Hasan Sheikh, brother Tariq Sheikh and the latter’s friend, MojjamPathan. The accused allegedly stuffed Khan’s body into a green drum and dumped it in a drain in an isolated area under the Valiv police station limits.

As per the police, Khan went to Dadar on April 3 to collect cash for his company but never returned home. After his father filed a missing complaint at the Mumbra police station, investigators analysed Khan’s call detail records and mobile location data, which matched Mehajabeen’s location in Vasai on the day he disappeared. Police also found that Khan had transferred ₹50,000 to Mehajabeen a day earlier. Initially denying any role, Mehajabeen later allegedly confessed during interrogation that she had called Khan to her residence in Bhoidapada, Vasai. Police said she demanded more money from Khan and, after allegedly finding nothing valuable on him, the three male accused tied his hands and legs before assaulting him with a plastic pipe, causing fatal head injuries.