Love, Lust And A Butchered Body: A Casting Director's Last Night
https://ift.tt/HVsXKEn On paper, it was just another missing-person complaint; in reality, it was the beginning of one of Mumbai's most chilling murder stories, starring a TV insider, a hopeful actress and a naval officer driven by suspicion. When television executive and casting director Neeraj Grover stopped answering calls in May 2008, his worried family approached the police. They suspected a woman friend might know more about his disappearance. That woman was Maria Susairaj, an aspiring actress Grover had been helping find work in Mumbai. She told investigators that Grover had left her Malad apartment around midnight to attend a party in Andheri. He had not. According to investigators, Grover was already dead. His body had been cut into pieces , packed into bags, driven out of Mumbai and set on fire in a forest. What appeared to be a missing-person case was about to expose a killing fuelled by suspicion, followed by a desperate attempt to erase nearly every trace of it...