YouTuber Ravina Rao and Boyfriend Kill Sleeping Husband in Bhiwani

The love for Instagram Reels turned deadly in Haryana's Bhiwani when Ravina Rao plotted with her YouTube boyfriend to kill her sleeping husband. This wasn't a crime of passion – it was calculated murder with every detail planned, from the killing to disposing of the body and creating an alibi.

Ten years ago, Ravina married Praveen in an arranged match. He drove an auto for a living; she was a housewife. They had a 7-year-old son. Life was ordinary until about 18 months ago when Ravina discovered Instagram Reels and YouTube videos.

She began making dance videos and acting in Haryanvi YouTube dramas. The neighbors noticed and used to talk about her videos. Ravina 's husband Praveen confronted her, asking her to stop making videos because people were gossiping behind their back. She didn't argue but things got bad between them.

Ravina started spending more time at her parents' home in Rewari than with her husband in Bhiwani. During one of her YouTube drama shoots, she met Suresh from Hansi village. When she stopped acting because of her husband's objections, Suresh reached out to Ravina and their conversations led to closeness between the two. The distance between husband and wife grew during these times. Whenever Ravina used to come home, their confrontation eventually led to extreme arguments. After one particularly heated fight on March 23, she decided to kill her husband.

The opportunity came on March 25. The house was perfect for murder – a two-story building where Praveen's father was away working as a halwai (sweetmaker), one brother lived downstairs with his wife, and the other lived elsewhere. Only three people were in the house: Praveen, Ravina, and her sister-in-law downstairs.

Ravina called Suresh that night: "Today we will finish Praveen, be ready." Around 9 PM, Praveen fell asleep and Ravina called Suresh on his motorcycle, sneaking up the external staircase to their upper floor room. The sister-in-law downstairs had no idea about this situation. Ravina took her scarf, wrapped it tightly around her sleeping husband's neck, and pulled hard in order to kill him. As Praveen struggled, Suresh held down his arms and legs and within minutes, he was dead.

The killers waited until midnight when the neighborhood was quiet. They wrapped Praveen's body in a sheet and carried it down the external stairs. On Suresh's motorcycle, they positioned the corpse between them – Suresh driving, Ravina sitting behind, holding the body upright to make it look like a passenger.

CCTV footage later showed this grim journey at 12:55 AM. They dumped the body in a drain near Dinod Road, hoping it would look like an accident, and returned separately – Suresh to Hansi, Ravina to her in-laws' house.

The next day, Ravina went to her parents' home as if nothing had happened. When she returned on March 28, the family was searching for Praveen. She joined the search, pretending concern. 

Four days after the murder, on March 29, authorities found Praveen's decomposed body. Despite the decay, a tattoo of his name on his hand helped identify him. Police circulated photos to nearby stations, and on March 30, Praveen's family confirmed it was him – missing since March 25.

While investigating, Praveen's cousin Pradeep and family reviewed neighborhood CCTV footage. They spotted something suspicious: Ravina on a motorcycle with another man, something wrapped in a sheet between them. They handed the footage to police. Initially, Ravina denied everything during questioning. Suresh was identified and brought in too. But when police showed them the CCTV footage, both confessed. 

Their elaborate plan to make a murder look like an accident unraveled because of one piece of digital evidence they hadn't accounted for – a silent electronic witness to their midnight journey with a wrapped corpse.

 

 

 

 

 

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