Overview

• Riya Dinesh Sarkanyasingh, 19, and Vishal Sanjay Shinde, 21, were arrested after confessing to the murder of Surendra Asaram Pandey, a cab driver in Navi Mumbai.
• The victim allegedly blackmailed Riya using intimate videos, threatening to leak them online if she did not comply with his demands for sexual favors.
• The couple attacked Pandey with a hammer during a confrontation, concealed his body in a bedsheet, and fled in his car, which later crashed near Pune.
• After the accident, the couple confessed to the crime at a police station in Sangamner, leading authorities to discover Pandey’s decomposed body in his locked apartment.
• Investigators are actively searching for the hammer used in the attack and the victim’s mobile phone, believed to contain the explicit videos central to the case.