On February 18, 2025, Mahesh Saini (alias Jeetu Saini) staged a car accident on the Dausa Highway in Rajasthan, India, claiming his wife Parul Saini died as a result of the vehicle slipping off the road while they were traveling from Jaipur to the Maha Kumbh. Police grew suspicious due to minimal damage on the vehicle and minor injuries on Mahesh. Initial post-mortem and forensic examinations revealed no struggle or fingerprints. However, subsequent investigation into Mahesh's criminal history revealed past marital disputes, two prior failed marriages ending in divorce over dowry allegations, and property disinheritance by his parents in late 2024. Investigators uncovered a secret second mobile phone that Mahesh used to conduct a two-hour recce of the highway on February 14. When confronted with call data, his changing excuses, and a late FSL report confirming traces of mild poison, Mahesh confessed to mixing poison into Parul's chips to render her unconscious before suffocating her and driving the car off the highway.
Country: India
State/Province: Rajasthan, India
City/Region: Dausa
Incident Type: Murder
Relationship Status: Married
Relationship Duration: Approximately 7 years
Incident Date: Feb. 18, 2025
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Approximately 7 years
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Domestic Conflict
The relationship was characterized by chronic interpersonal disputes over independent housing, financial pressures, and strained ties with Mahesh's family, who had disinherited the couple in late 2024. Mahesh had a history of broken marriages and prior legal disputes involving dowry. Facing ongoing marital discord and financial friction, Mahesh escalated to pre-planned homicide, attempting to disguise it as a fatal traffic accident.
Police in Dausa opened an inquiry after noticing that the physical condition of the crashed vehicle and minor injuries on both occupants were inconsistent with a fatal traffic impact. Though early autopsy and FSL checks failed to detect fatal physical trauma or struggle signs, police tracked Mahesh's past criminal record in Jaipur and Sirohi. Interrogation of a close associate revealed a hidden second mobile phone. Tracing its location data showed Mahesh spent two hours on February 14 inspecting the exact highway stretch where the crash occurred. After an updated FSL report detected mild poison and Mahesh provided conflicting explanations regarding his presence on the highway, he confessed to poisoning and suffocating his wife before staging the crash.
Initial confusion arose because the vehicle crash scene was presented as an accidental road mishap, and the preliminary post-mortem and FSL reports showed no external marks of struggle, structural vehicle destruction, or gross fatal injury. Because Mahesh administered a non-lethal dose of poison to immobilize his wife and suffocated her gently while she was unconscious, forensic teams initially found no struggle marks or fingerprints.
Mahesh planned Parul's murder for six months following property disputes and disinheritance by his parents. On February 14, he carried out a recce along Dausa Highway using a secret secondary phone. On February 18, before departing Jaipur for Maha Kumbh, he fed Parul poison-laced chips to make her groggy. Along Dausa Highway, once Parul became unconscious, Mahesh suffocated her by pressing her mouth and nose, preventing struggle marks. He then purposefully drove the car off the highway to simulate a crash. Investigators pieced the crime together through secondary phone call records, location tracking, past police records in Jaipur and Sirohi, and a secondary FSL report confirming poison administration.
The case illustrates high lethality risk stemming from chronic domestic conflict combined with an offender's past history of marital instability and legal trouble. Mahesh meticulously prepared the crime six months in advance, leveraging internet research to calibrate poison dosages, acquire hidden communication devices, and conduct target recce, demonstrating extreme calculation and risk concealment.
Staged vehicular accidents accompanied by low impact damage require thorough background verification of occupants and digital forensic audits. Perpetrators planning pre-mediated domestic homicides may utilize micro-dosing of sedatives or toxic substances alongside soft suffocation techniques specifically designed to evade preliminary forensic and post-mortem screening.
Discrepancy between the fatal outcome and the minor vehicle damage, combined with a history of persistent marital quarrels and property disinheritance by Mahesh's parents.
A tip-off from Mahesh's close associate revealing a secret second mobile phone, which placed Mahesh on the Dausa Highway for two hours four days prior to the incident.
Location data from the hidden secondary phone placing Mahesh at the staging area on February 14, conflicting statements given during police questioning, a 2016 dowry FIR record from Sirohi, and an updated FSL report detecting mild poison in Parul's system.
Police officials noted that Mahesh initially claimed the car slipped off the highway at high speed due to loss of control, resulting in his wife's death. When asked about his presence on the highway on February 14, Mahesh offered inconsistent claims about looking for girls or celebrating Valentine's Day with a girlfriend.
Initial handling treated the case as a potential road accident due to inconclusive initial autopsy findings; follow-up digital forensics, past record checks, and FSL toxin detection transformed the inquiry into a premeditated murder investigation.
The exact identity of the close associate who provided police with information on Mahesh's second phone was kept confidential by police.