A group of more than 60 artists have written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, demanding his intervention in expediting the investigation into the murders of artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambani. In the letter, the artists wrote that they were disturbed at the manner in which Upadhyay's estranged husband Chintan Upadhyay, who is also an artist, "continues to be detained and defamed despite the fact that no evidence against him has been found to date". He has now spent 60 days in prison. The same time the Police have repeatedly

and publicly said that the cause of the deaths is still not known to them.

Chintan Upadhyay was arrested by the Mumbai Police in connection with the incident in December. He is currently being held under judicial custody until February 22. The police suspect that Chintan could be linked to a plot to lure his wife with a video which his Jaipur-based domestic help claimed to have made, reported The Indian Express. According to reports, Hema Upadhyay and Bhambani were killed when they went to watch the clip that was offered to her by Vidyadhar Rajbhar, the prime accused in the case. Their bodies were found wrapped in plastic sheets and dumped in a drain in Mumbai's Kandivali suburb.