Trap 5 steps
Ajay's Staged Murder Trap
Ajay Shridhar, wheelchair-bound, manipulates his wife Anshita and her lover Sanjay into attempting to murder him for insurance money, while secretly loading their pistols with fake bullets so the attempt cannot harm him, then feigns death before revealing himself alive.
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Insurance policy and feigned suicidal intent
Ajay Shridhar · Anshita 'Anshu' A. Sridhar · Sanjay Sridhar
What it looked like: Anshita and Sanjay are led to believe Ajay genuinely wants to die, when he is actually setting a trap around the money they would claim after his death.
Ajay takes out a life insurance policy and, feigning suicidal intent, tells Anshita and Sanjay that he does not wish to live the rest of his life in a wheelchair and prefers death to a compromised life.
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Anshita and Sanjay agree to murder Ajay
Anshita 'Anshu' A. Sridhar · Sanjay Sridhar
Anshita and Sanjay agree to murder Ajay and present the death as the result of a botched home robbery, planning an alibi built around a late-night sequence after leaving a cinema.
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Ajay loads fake bullets into the pistols
Ajay Shridhar · Anshita 'Anshu' A. Sridhar · Sanjay Sridhar
Ajay secretly loads fake bullets into the two pistols, fitted with silencers, that Anshita and Sanjay arm themselves with to carry out the murder.
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Ajay feigns death during the staged shooting
Ajay Shridhar · Anshita 'Anshu' A. Sridhar · Sanjay Sridhar
What it looked like: Anshita and Sanjay believe the insurance windfall is now guaranteed and that Ajay is dead, while he has actually survived unharmed.
On the night of the staged murder, Anshita and Sanjay shoot Ajay with the silenced pistols; Ajay pretends to be killed by their hands and watches as they celebrate what seems to be a successful murder.
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Ajay reveals he is alive and turns the tables
Ajay Shridhar · Anshita 'Anshu' A. Sridhar · Sanjay Sridhar
Ajay reveals that he is alive, shoots Sanjay, and exposes the ruse; when Anshita pulls the trigger at him again, the fake bullets leave him unharmed, and he kills her.
