📢 LEAD DETECTIVE — Read aloud to all players before opening any evidence
It is Friday, 21 March 2025. The wedding of Arjun Singhania and Priyanka Rathore is the social event of the Rajasthan season. Two hundred guests. A ₹25-crore budget. The Taj Lake Palace floating on Pichola Lake. By midnight, the celebrations are still running — music, dancing, speeches.
At 12:07 AM, a hotel room attendant finds patriarch Harish Singhania, 58, unresponsive on the floor of his presidential suite. A wine glass sits half-empty on the side table. A forensics team is called before sunrise.
The hotel is on an island. No one has left since 11 PM. The boat dock was sealed at the host family's request. Everyone at the reception was still there when the body was found. Someone in that room had decided this wedding would also be a funeral.
| Scene | Suite 214 (Presidential Suite), Taj Lake Palace, Pichola Lake, Udaipur |
|---|---|
| Body Found By | Gopal Meena — Room Attendant — 12:07 AM |
| Cause of Death | Thallium acetate poisoning — acute lethal dose |
| Weapon | Wine glass — 2024 Bordeaux — laced with thallium acetate |
| TOD Estimate | 23:55 – 00:10 hrs (AIIMS Jodhpur toxicology + autopsy) |
| Scene Status | Suite 214 sealed — hotel on lockdown — island access controlled |
| # | Name | Role | Known Conflict with Victim |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | Deepa Singhania, 54 | Wife | 31-year marriage; Harish had secretly filed for divorce on 10 March to formalise his second family in Dubai; new will cuts Deepa from 60% to 30% |
| S2 | Arjun Singhania, 26 | Son (Groom) | Harish signed a company charter amendment one week before the wedding removing Arjun as automatic successor; Arjun learned of this three days before the ceremony |
| S3 | Kavitha Rathore, 52 | Mother of the Bride | In 1998, Harish's aggressive acquisition forced her first husband's textile company into bankruptcy, contributing to his death by heart attack in 2001; 27-year grievance |
| S4 | Rakesh Sinha, 44 | Singhania Group CFO | Harish had identified ₹2.3 crore siphoned by Rakesh from the group's Mauritius account; confrontation scheduled for the week after the wedding |
| S5 | Sunita Verma, 36 | Wedding Planner | Harish was withholding her final ₹35 lakh payment citing fabricated quality complaints; legal notice had been sent |