Piyush Dhamanodia, accused of raping and killing his girlfriend and later attempting to summon her spirit through tantric rituals, shows little remorse for his actions. Outside a police station, with his hands cuffed, he appears indifferent to reporters’ questions about how he took the life of the 24-year-old MBA student.
As the media persons press him on the brutal rape and murder, Piyush Dhamanodia offers a faint, chilling smile and says: “Jo ho gaya wo ho gaya [What is done is done].”
“Nothing has happened, whatever has happened has happened. Don’t do it, what will you do if you want to know…I will tell everyone how to do it, like that. Time will come.” [Nothing has happened, just leave it, what’s done is done. Just let it go, what will you do by knowing… I will explain everything properly, properly. The time will come],” he is heard saying.
Indore Police on Wednesday, 18 February, conducted a detailed crime scene recreation at his rented flat in Dwarkapuri.
Piyush Dhamanodia had killed his girlfriend, another MBA student, on 11 February at a flat in Indore. He had allegedly sexually assaulted her, killed her and then desecrated her dead body again. After fleeing to Mumbai, he tried to ‘contact’ her spirit through occult practices.
He was held from Mumbai’s Andheri area on 14 February, a day after the body of the woman was recovered from his flat in the Dwarkapuri area of Indore. She had been reported missing on 11 February. She had told her family that she was going to a birthday party and would return by 11 PM that night.
Around 11 PM that night, Piyush Dhamanodia sent a message from her phone: “Tell Papa she won’t be returning home,” NDTV reported. Her body was found a day later, on 13 February, after neighbors alerted police about a foul smell emanating from the flat.
The police also found a scarf, vermillion and bangles from his flat. Police said he had watched videos online to learn the ritual process.
Police further revealed that after the murder, Piyush Dhamanodia used the victim’s mobile phone to circulate previously recorded intimate videos of the two in a college group, allegedly to defame her. He also sent the videos to all her WhatsApp contacts and even uploaded it on her status. His family was reportedly opposed to the marriage.
