Panaji, April 28 (TNN): Dr Vijaraj Desai, Goa medical college (GMC) and hospital, Bambolim, arrested by CBI on the charge of murdering his wife on Wednesday, has allegedly confessed that his wife, Archana, had committed suicide and he had disposed her body.
Since her disappearance in December 2010, Vijayraj had been maintaining that she had left the house on her own.
CBI officials investigating the case, however, are not willing to accept the latest version of Vijayraj claiming that they have enough evidence to nail him.
Despite considerable loss of time, CBI managed to get crucial information that Archana had died.
The CBI official checked bodies at the morgues at borders of neighbouring states and checked several reports of unidentified bodies.
"We checked over 1,000 such reports," says a CBI official. The breakthrough came when they had a report about one unknown body traced near Sawantwadi.
The gold ornaments were recognized by the family as that of Archana. "The DNA testing confirmed our suspicions," says the CBI.
The CBI has its own reason for not believing in Vijayraj.
"If she had committed suicide why did she go to Sawantwadi. There was no purse on her nor her slippers were found near her body," the CBI official pointed out.
Archana's brother, Arvind Rivonkar, is not willing to believe that his sister killed herself.
"My sister was a brave woman. She put up with her criminal husband because of the children. I'm 100 % sure that he murdered her," he adds with finality.