The Borivali court today sent artist Chintan Upadhyay to judicial custody in connection with the killing of his estranged wife and her lawyer.

Metropolitan Magistrate Prasad Kulkarni ordered Chintan to be sent to judicial custody till January 11 with the other accused.

On December 12, bodies of artist Hema Upadhyay and her advocate Harish Bhambhani were found stuffed in two boxes in a drain in Kandivali.

On December 28, Chintan was arrested in connection with the murder and was in police custody.The other four accused in the murder - Pradip Rajbhar, Vijay Rajbhar, Shivkumar Rajbhar and Azaad Rajbhar - are also currently lodged in judicial custody till January 11.

However, the main accused, Vidyadhar Rajhbhar, is still at large.The Kandivali police has found several sketches, a diary and a pen drive from Chintan's residence but maintain that the cause of death of the two is not known and await forensic and chemical analysis reports.