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{{Infobox person&lt;br /&gt;
| name            = Hema Upadhyay&lt;br /&gt;
| image           = Hema Upadhyaydream a wish wish a dream Ivam.jpg|&lt;br /&gt;
| caption         = Upadhyay with &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Dream a wish-wish a dream&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, 2006&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_name      = Hema Hirani&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_date      = {{birth year|1972}}&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_place     = [[Vadodra]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]&lt;br /&gt;
| death_date      = {{death date and age|2015|12|11|1972|df=y}}&lt;br /&gt;
| death_place     = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]&lt;br /&gt;
| education       = BFA in painting and MFA in print making from [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]], 1997&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Hema Upadhyay&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (born &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Hema Hirani&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;; 1972 – 11 December 2015) was an Indian artist based in [[Mumbai]]. She was known for photography and [[sculpture|sculptural]] [[installation art|installations]]. She was active from 1998 until her death in 2015.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personal life ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Born Hema Hirani in [[Vadodra|Baroda]], she met her future husband and fellow artist Chintan Upadhyay in 1992. The couple married in 1998, and settled in Mumbai. They worked together in many exhibitions, before filing for a divorce in 2010. They were officially divorced in 2014.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;TH_GSM_drain&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/artist-hema-upadhyay-her-lawyer-found-dead-in-drain/article7983307.ece |title=Artist Hema Upadhyay, her lawyer found dead in drain |date=14 December 2015 |newspaper=The Hindu |author=Gautam Sandip Mengle }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Chintan then moved to [[Delhi]]; she lived in their [[apartment|flat]] on the [[Juhu]]-Tara road.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;HT_bodies_drain&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/mumbai-bodies-of-artist-hema-upadhyay-her-lawyer-harish-bhambhani-found-in-drain/story-GGiWlhOZ2HoNKqA1OGC2AL.html |title=Bodies of Mumbai artist Hema Upadhyay, her lawyer found in drain |author=Manish K Pathak |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=14 December 2015 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Early works ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Hema had her first solo exhibition, titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Sweet Sweat Memories&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, at Gallery Chemould, now Chemould Prescott road (Mumbai), in 2001. The exhibition consisted of mixed media on paper works. In these works she has incorporated her own photographs to communicate her ideas of [[human migration|migration]] having moved to Bombay in 1998. Hema&amp;#039;s paintings were usually characterised by the inclusion of small-collaged photographic self-portraits.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hema Upadhyay the nymph and adult.jpg | The Nymph and the Adult, Installation, 2001, Artspace, Sydney, Australia&lt;br /&gt;
Hema Upadhyay made in china.jpg | Made in China, Collaborative installation, 2003, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2001 Hema had her first international solo at [[Artspace Sydney|Artspace]], Sydney, and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, where she exhibited an installation titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Nymph and the Adult&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (also exhibited at the 10th International Triennial – India held in New Delhi) she hand sculpted 2000 lifelike [[cockroach]]es, infesting the gallery with them. The work was intended to make viewers think about the consequences of [[War|military actions]].{{fact|date=March 2021}}&lt;br /&gt;
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In collaboration with [[Chintan Upadhyay]], she did a work titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Made in China&amp;#039;&amp;#039;,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book|url = https://www.worldcat.org/title/indian-art-volume-33-here-and-now-young-voices-from-india/oclc/703599129&amp;amp;referer=brief_results|title = Indian art. here and now: young voices from India. [Volume] 3/3 [Volume] 3/3|last = Vadehra Art Gallery|last2 = Grosvenor Vadehra (Art Gallery : London|first2 = England)|date = 2006-01-01|publisher = Vadehra Art Gallery|isbn = 8187737271|location = [New Delhi]|language = English}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; which spoke about [[Consumerism|mass consumerism]], [[globalisation]] and a loss of identity through this. Her next collaboration was in 2006 when she collaborated with her mother, Bina Hirani, the work was titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Mum-my&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and was shown at the Chicago Cultural Centre.{{fact|date=March 2021}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Museum exhibitions ==&lt;br /&gt;
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From 2004 onwards, Hema Upadhyay came up with installations that were part of various group shows at the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ullens Center for Contemporary Art&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Beijing, China; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;National Portrait Gallery&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Canberra, Australia; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Centre Pompidou&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Paris, France; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Museum on the Seam&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Jerusalem, Israel; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;MACRO museum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Rome, Italy; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;IVAM&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Valencia, Spain; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Mart Museum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Italy; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Mori Art Museum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Tokyo, Japan; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Hanger Bicocca&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Milan, Italy; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Chicago Cultural Centre&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Chicago, USA; [[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts|&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts&amp;#039;&amp;#039;]], Paris, France; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Fukuoka Asian Art Museum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Fukuoka, Japan; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Japan Foundation&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Tokyo and the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre|&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Henie Onstad Kunssenter&amp;#039;&amp;#039;]], Oslo, Norway. A few months after Hema died, in 2016, her work was exhibited under the theme &amp;quot;Megacities Asia&amp;quot; at the [http://www.mfa.org/ Museum of fine arts, Boston].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite news|url=http://www.mfa.org/news/megacities|title=Megacities Asia Takes Over Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Beyond with Immersive Sculptures and Installations|date=2016-03-23|work=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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8feet x 12feet.JPG|8&amp;#039; x 12&amp;#039;, 2009, installation, Indian Highway&lt;br /&gt;
Hema Upadhyay WHERE THE BEES SUCK THERE SUCK I.jpg|Where the bees suck, there suck&amp;amp;nbsp;I, 2009, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy&lt;br /&gt;
Think left think right.JPG|Think left, think right, think low, think tight, 2010, Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, Japan &amp;amp; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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She was the only Indian artist to be part of the inaugural exhibition for the Reopening of the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;MACRO museum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Rome. The exhibition was curated by Luca Massimi Barbero, Hema exhibited her installation titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Where the bees suck, there suck I&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Residencies and workshops ==&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2010, Hema was invited to a residency at [[Atelier Calder]], Sache, France. While there, she completed the work &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Only Memory has Preservatives&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, this work was inspired by the natural surroundings in Sache, but also reflected ideas that have been part of her practice. Hema tried to replicate the forest in her studio, though not in the literal sense. Using copyright free images of certain trees found in the area, she created a landscape work without using materials from nature.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2003 she was part of the Vasl residency in [[Karachi]] where she made a work titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Loco foco motto&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (which she later in 2007 exhibited in a group show at the Hanger Bicocca, [[Milan, Italy]]) that spoke about the India-Pakistan divide keeping in mind her own family history related to the [[partition of India]]. The works were also a break from her trademark symbolism, they were more craft oriented as she used [[matchsticks]] and glue to make chandeliers. Constructed of thousands of un-ignited matchsticks assembled into elaborate chandeliers, these pieces embody an important element of [[Agni|Hindu ritual]], symbolising creation and destruction.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her later works featured patterned surfaces, which quote from Indian spiritual iconography and traditional textile design, titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Killing Site&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Dream a wish-wish a dream&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (2006) was the first large-scale installation that Hema did. At first glance her installation seems to be only a landscape of Bombay; however, it is actually a statement on the changing landscape by migrants who make Bombay.&lt;br /&gt;
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Only memories have.jpg | Only Memory has Preservatives, 2010, Atelier Calder, Sache, France&lt;br /&gt;
Moderniznation (final detail).jpeg | Moderniznation, 2011, Espace Topographie de l&amp;#039;Art, Festival D&amp;#039; Automne a Paris, Paris, France&lt;br /&gt;
Princesses rusted belt 2011.jpg | The Princesses&amp;#039; Rusted Belt, 250 handmade clay birds, iron wire, acrylic, watercolours, cotton thread and text on printing paper, dimensions variable, 2011, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy&lt;br /&gt;
Princesses rusted belt 3.jpg | The Princesses&amp;#039; Rusted Belt, Mixed media on arches paper, 72 x 48 in, 2011, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy&lt;br /&gt;
Hema Upadhyay loco foco motto.jpg | Loco foco motto, 2007, Hanger Bicocca, Milan, Italy&lt;br /&gt;
Hema Upadhyay killing site.jpg | Killing Site, 2008, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy&lt;br /&gt;
Hema Upadhyaydream a wish wish a dream Ivam.jpg | Dream a wish-wish a dream, 2006&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Selected solo presentations ==&lt;br /&gt;
* 2012 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Extra Ordinary&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Faculty of Fine Arts Baroda, and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
* 2012 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Mute Migration&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia&lt;br /&gt;
* 2011–12 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Princesses Rusted Belt&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Studio La Citta, Verona Italy (Ex Cat)&lt;br /&gt;
* 2011 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Moderniznation&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Espace Topographie de l&amp;#039;Art, Festival D&amp;#039; Automne a Paris, Paris&lt;br /&gt;
* 2009  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Where the bees suck, there suck I&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Reopening of MACRO museum, Rome Italy&lt;br /&gt;
* 2008–09 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Yours Sincerely&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, [[Gallery Nature Morte]], New Delhi&lt;br /&gt;
* 2008  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Universe revolves on&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (Ex. Cat)&lt;br /&gt;
* 2004  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Underneath&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Gallery Chemould, Bombay (Ex. Cat)&lt;br /&gt;
* 2001–02  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Nymph and the Adult&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (Ex. Cat)&lt;br /&gt;
* 2001  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Sweet Sweat Memories&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Gallery Chemould, Bombay (Ex. Cat)&lt;br /&gt;
* 2001  &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Nymph and the Adult&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Art Space, Sydney&lt;br /&gt;
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== Select Group Shows&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;:0&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; ==&lt;br /&gt;
* 4th International Print Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, 1997 &lt;br /&gt;
* Prithvi Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1998&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Secret Life of Objects&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Lakeeran Gallery, Mumbai, 2000&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Exchanging Territories&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi, 2001&lt;br /&gt;
* X International Triennale, Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi, 2001&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Transfiguration&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Art Inc, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, 2002&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;crossing generations&amp;#039;&amp;#039;: diVERGE, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 2003&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Loco-Foco-Motto&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, a sculpture made with match sticks, International Artists&amp;#039; Residency, Karachi, Pakistan, 2003&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Parthenogenesis&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2003&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Tree from the Seed&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Hennie Onstad Kunssenter, Oslo, Norway, 2003&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Have We Met&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 2004&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Indian Summer&amp;#039;&amp;#039;: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, 2005&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Indian Contemporary Art&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, Chelsea college of Art, London, 2005&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Present Future&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, NGMA, Mumbai, 2005&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Parallel Realities-Asian Art Now&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Blackburn Museum, Blackburn, UK, 2006&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Long Happy Hours and Thereby Happiness and Other stories&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, the Museum Gallery, Mumbai, 2006&lt;br /&gt;
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== Invited as artist in residence ==&lt;br /&gt;
* 2010 Atelier Calder, Sache, France&lt;br /&gt;
* 2008 Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore&lt;br /&gt;
* 2007 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA&lt;br /&gt;
* 2003 Vasl International Artists Residency, Karachi&lt;br /&gt;
* 2001 Art Space, Sydney&lt;br /&gt;
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==Death==&lt;br /&gt;
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Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambani were killed on Friday, 11 December 2015, reportedly over a financial dispute.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bhambhani had represented Hema in court cases against her ex-husband Chintan. After filing for a divorce in 2010, Chintan and Hema had lived in different rooms of their Mumbai flat until their divorce in 2014. In 2013, Hema had filed a harassment case against Chintan, accusing him of painting obscene sketches on the walls of their Mumbai flat.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.ndtv.com/mumbai-news/bodies-of-artist-hema-upadhyay-her-lawyer-found-in-mumbai-drain-1254383 |title=Bodies Of Artist Hema Upadhyay, Her Lawyer Found In Mumbai Drain |author=Ankita Sinha |publisher=NDTV |date=13 December 2015 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Represented by Bhambhani, she lost the case after the court ruled that Chintan&amp;#039;s bedroom was his personal space.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;TH_GSM_drain&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; After their divorce, Chintan moved to Delhi. Bhambani represented Hema in another case seeking [[alimony]]: Hema demanded an alimony of {{INR}} 200,000 per month; but the court reduced that amount to {{INR}} 40,000 per month.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;MD_Alvida&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/chintan-put-up-alvida-song-on-fb-day-before-hema-upadhyays-murder/16782188 |title=Chintan put up Alvida song on FB day before Hema Upadhyay&amp;#039;s murder |authors=Samiullah Khan and Jayesh Shah |newspaper=Mid-Day |date=18 December 2015 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; On the day of their murders, Chintan had paid {{INR}} 200,000 to Bhambhani as part of an alimony payout.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;TH_GSM_case&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/hema-upadhyay-and-lawyer-harish-bhambhani-murder-case/article7985990.ece |title=Mumbai double murder case |date=14 December 2015 |newspaper=The Hindu |author=Gautam S Mengle }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Hema had contracted out her [[art fabrication]] work to Vidyadhar Rajbhar (alias Gotu), the owner of Vanshraj Arts. She also stored her artwork at his warehouse. Vidyadhar&amp;#039;s family had a close relationship with the family of her ex-husband Chintan.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;HT_confess&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; In fact, Vidyadhar&amp;#039;s father Vanshraj had named him after Chintan&amp;#039;s father. When Vidyadhar&amp;#039;s father fell ill and faced financial troubles, Chintan paid for his medical expenses of over {{INR}} 500,000.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IE_3_more&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/hema-upadhyay-murder-two-more-alleged-killers-a-tempo-driver-arrested/ |title=Hema upadhyay murder: 3 more held, hunt on for key suspect |newspaper=Indian Express |date=16 December 2015 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Chintan had also sponsored Vidyadhar&amp;#039;s training in fabrication at [[Jaipur]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Hema-killed-over-Rs-5-lakh-dues-says-suspect-held-in-Varanasi/articleshow/50178681.cms |title=Hema killed over Rs 5 lakh dues, says suspect held in Varanasi |author=Nitasha Natu and Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui |newspaper=The Times of India |date=15 December 2015 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; According to Vidyadhar&amp;#039;s associates, Hema owed Vidyadhar some money, and he had visited Hema&amp;#039;s residence many times to seek the payment.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IE_3_more&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; However, according to the police investigators, it was Vidyadhar who was heavily in debt, and had taken loans from Hema, Chintan and others. He owed Hema {{INR}} 200,000. On the day of the murders, he called Hema to his [[Kandivali]] warehouse, claiming that he had some video evidence that could strengthen her case against Chintan.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;NS_MM_2016&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/crime/Hema-didnt-owe-money-to-accused-Vidyadhar-it-was-other-way-round/articleshow/50515333.cms |title=Hema didn&amp;#039;t owe money to the accused Vidhyadhar, it was other way round |newspaper=Mumbai Mirror |author=Nazia Sayed |date=10 January 2016 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Hema took along Bhambhani to examine the evidence.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;DNA_left&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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On 11 December, the day of the murders, Hema called her domestic help Lalit Mandal around 6.30pm, informing him that she would have dinner outside. Bhambhani left his [[Matunga]] home around 6pm, telling his family that he was going to meet a client in [[Andheri]]. The two met at Hema&amp;#039;s studio in Andheri. Around 8 pm, they left for Kandivali to meet Vidyadhar. At the warehouse, Vidyadhar was accompanied by his associates Azad Rajbhar, Pradeep Rajbhar and Shiv Kumar Rajbhar (alias Sadhu). They had planned to scare Hema using a chemical-soaked napkin. The chemical is believed to be chloroform (used to clean the moulds of sculptures) or a pesticide (which Vidyadhar procured from his brother). Vidyadhar held Hema from behind, as Azad held the napkin to her face. When Bhambhani intervened, Shiv and Pradeep overpowered him. Initially, they only restrained Bhambhani with ropes and [[duct tape]]s. But when they realized that the chemical had killed Hema, they killed Bhambhani for being a witness.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;MD_chemical_2015&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/napkins-were-soaked-in-chemical-in-advance-to-smother-hema-harish/16779172 |title=&amp;#039;Napkins were soaked in chemical in advance to smother Hema, Harish&amp;#039; |author=Samiullah Khan and Shiva Devnath |publisher=Mid-Day |date=17 December 2015 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;TH_GSM_scare&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/vidyadhar-was-trying-to-scare-hema/article7999032.ece |title=Hema Upadhyay murder case: Vidyadhar was trying to scare Hema |date=17 December 2015 |newspaper=The Hindu }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Rajbhars packed the dead bodies in cardboard boxes that they used to transport artwork. They then transported the bodies to the drain ([[nullah]]) in a temp truck driven by Vijay Kumar Rajbhar.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;GD_MM_glorified&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Vidyadhar and Shiv then decided to escape to their native village in [[Uttar Pradesh]]. They caught a train to [[Varanasi Junction railway station|Varanasi]] from [[Dadar railway station|Dadar]] around 9:30 pm. After reaching [[Itarsi]], Vidyadhar told Shiv that he wanted to surrender, and got off the train.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;DNA_left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-prime-accused-left-city-immediately-after-killing-hema-lawyer-2156664 |title=Prime accused left city immediately after killing Hema, lawyer |date=17 December 2015 |newspaper=DNA }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A Museum of Arts, Boston official, mourned the death of Hema. Her work was scheduled to be exhibited at the museum a few months after she died.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/12/15/artist-featured-mfa-found-dead-india/qMZPH21uIn8hFUE9NivJhP/story.html|title=Artist to be featured at MFA found dead in India - The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=2018-03-09}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Police investigation ===&lt;br /&gt;
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When Hema did not return home at night, her domestic help Mandal tried to contact her, only to find her mobile phone switched off. He then contacted her relatives and friends. The next morning, he registered a missing persons complaint. Bhambani&amp;#039;s family also found his phone switched off, and registered a complaint.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/bodies-of-artist-hema-upadhyay-lawyer-found-in-kandivali-drain/16767198 |title=Bodies of artist Hema Upadhyay, lawyer found in Kandivali drain; husband quizzed |date=13 December 2015 |newspaper=Mid-Day }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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On Saturday, around 7:30 pm, a sweeper noticed a hand in the boxes floating in the drain, opposite a [[crematorium]] in the Dahanukar Wadi area of Kandivali. He alerted the police, who retrieved the boxes. The bodies had been wrapped in transparent [[polyurethane]] sheets before being stuffed in the cardboard boxes. They were naked except for [[undergarment]]s.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;HT_bodies_drain&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; The bodies had not decomposed, and the police were able to identify the victims. Based on the CCTV footage and call records, the police determined that the two had met at her studio in Andheri, and left in Bhambhani&amp;#039;s car.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;TH_GSM_drain&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; The last call made from Bhambani&amp;#039;s mobile phone, around 8:30pm, was traced to Kandivali.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;HT_bodies_drain&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The police located the manufacturing details and the batch number from the cardboard boxes. This, in addition to the call detail records of the victims, led the police to Vidyadhar&amp;#039;s fabrication unit in Laljipada area of Kandivali. After analyzing [[CCTV]] footage from some houses in the area, the police apprehended Vijay, the truck driver.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;GD_MM_glorified&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/crime/Driver-being-glorified-was-party-to-murders/articleshow/50196368.cms |title=‘Driver being glorified was party to murders’ |author=Gagandeep Dhillon |newspaper=Mumbai Mirror |date=16 December 2015 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Vijay informed the police about the other suspects, but insisted that he did not know that there were dead bodies inside the boxes. The police then arrested Azad and Pradeep.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;MD_chemical_2015&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[Special Task Force (India)|Special Task Force]] (STF) of the [[Uttar Pradesh police]] intercepted Shiv Kumar on his way from the Varanasi station to his native village Gosaipur. The STF recovered [[ATM card]]s, [[subscriber identity module|SIM]] cards and other documents belonging to Hema and Bhambhani from him. He confessed to the murders.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;HT_confess&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/man-held-in-varanasi-confesses-to-killing-hema-upadhyay-her-lawyer/story-sL0aBHjeK2sCulvvlScXbM.html |title=Man held in Varanasi ‘confesses’ to killing Hema Upadhyay, her lawyer |date=15 December 2015 |newspaper=Hindustan Times }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;AA_Catch_2015&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/how-the-mumbai-police-cracked-the-hemaupadhyaymurder-1450104385.html |title=How the Mumbai police &amp;#039;cracked&amp;#039; the #HemaUpadhyayMurder |author=Ashwin Aghor |publisher=CatchNews |date=14 December 2015 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Vidyadhar is currently at large. The police have not completely ruled out Chintan as a suspect, due to his close acquaintance with Vidyadhar. The call detail record (CDR) of Chintan&amp;#039;s phone shows that the two men exchanged several calls a fortnight before the murders.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IE_calls_2015&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/hema-upadhyay-harish-bhambhani-double-murder-mumbai-police-team-on-suspects-trail-in-up/ |title=Hema Upadhyay murder: UP man confesses, police track ex-husband’s calls |date=15 December 2015 |newspaper=Indian Express }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Hema&amp;#039;s family as well as police suspect that Chintan paid Vidyadhar to commit her murder.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;MD_Alvida&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;NS_MM_2016&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; In February 2016, a group of 61 artists demanded his release arguing that the police had been unable to find any evidence against him.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/hema-upadhyay-murder-case-chintan-moves-court-bail-523 |title=Hema Upadhyay murder case: Chintan moves court for bail |author=Ashita Dadheech |date=14 February 2016 |newspaper=Asian Age }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Ahmed Ali | TNN | Updated: 1 Dec 2018, 7:11 IST This story is from 1 December 2018&lt;br /&gt;
Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam quits double murder case of artist-lawyer: ‘Dindoshi is too far’&lt;br /&gt;
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== External links ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://www.saffronart.com/artists/hema-upadhyay Hema Upadhyay] on Saffron Art&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/hema_upadhyay.htm Profile] on [[Saatchi Gallery]] website&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170343/http://www.gallerychemould.com/artists/hema-homepage/ Profile] on [[Chemould Prescott Road]] website&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.initiartmagazine.com/interview.php?IVarchive=40 Interview] in initiArt magazine&lt;br /&gt;
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