The Mumbai police on Monday cracked the sensational case involving the disappearance and consequent murder of HDFC Bank Vice President Siddharth Sanghvi, by arresting a 20-year-old taxi driver and recovering the body of the deceased from Kalyan in the neighrbouring Thane district.
Indentifying the arrested cab driver as one Sarfaraz Shaikh, the police said that the motive was murder was robbery.
A resident of the posh Malabar Hill in south Mumbai where he stayed with his parents, wife and four-year-old child, 37-year-old Sanghvi had gone missing on September 5. He had disappeared from the parking lot of the Kamala Mills area of Lower Parel in Mumbai. Sanghvi's body was found near the famed pilgrim centre of Haji Malang in Kalyan. The recovery of the body followed an intensive search and the arrest of murder suspect, a cab driver, who worked with a cab aggregator.