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Raju, and his wife, Josephine, with
Suspicion and
Shradhananda on the morning of April 28,
1991. Sabah, Shakereh’ s second daughter
Investigation
tried reaching out to her mother by calling
several times but she was only given excuses
In June of 1992, a little over a year
by Shradhananda, In June of 1991 Sabah
after Shakereh had been missing.
visited Shakereh’ s Bangalore estate in hopes
Sabah's suspicions only grew with
of meeting her mother but to her
Shradhananda’s continuous
disappointment she was yet again given a
deceptions. Sabah filed a Habeas
vague response, this time that her mother
Corpus petition even though the
was getting treated at Roosevelt hospital in
police didn’t take any action.
New York.
Shradhananda kept feeding people

lies about Shakereh’s whereabouts.
The police treated this as a “family Concrete and stone hid

matter”. me below,
A secret I held, that no
In May 1994, when police finally Food one should know.
Evidence was found, a
took the case seriously, they began box my grave,
For
questioning the househelp and DNA revealed the truth

neighbors; they said Shradhanada they could save.
What am I?
had construction done in the Thought
courtyard in mid-1991. The police got Answer: The wooden box
containing Shakereh’s
court permission to excavate the area. body
forensic team, crime scene

investigators, and even a video crew
were present. Sabah’s questions and doubts only increased
when she contacted the Roosevelt hospital,
only to discover that there was no one by the

name “Shakereh” admitted to their hospital.
Discovery of
Sabah immediately confronted

Shradhananda about the hospital incident.
the Body
Upon confrontation, Shradhananda

As police dug through the courtyard, admitted to misleading her on Shakereh’s

they eventually broke through the insistence, a lie Sabah discovers later on.
concrete and found a wooden box Sabah visited Bangalore multiple times after
buried underneath. When they that but never found her mother there.

opened it, they found what no one Sabah once found Shakereh’s passport,
wanted to believe, Shakereh indicating that Shakereh never left the

Khaleeli’s skeletal remains, still country.