Shakereh Khaleeli

The family were also residents of Singapore since the early 1900s where Shakereh went to school.

She was the daughter of Gulam Hussain Namazie and Gauhar Taj Begum Namazie, the youngest daughter of Sir Mirza Ismail the Diwan of Mysore, Jaipur and Hyderabad.

Gauhar Taj was a socialite and philanthropist involved in many charitable organisations in Singapore.

Shakereh has an elder brother Mirza Karim Namazie who used to be a television journalist.

Her paternal grandfather was Mohammad Namazie, a trader with interests in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and southern India.

Ghulam Hussain Namazie's was responsible for opening Capitol Theatre, Singapore which was Singapore's first cinema hall.

He was also an equestrian and involved with the Turf Club where the family horses won many prestigious trophies.

Later he would join the board of the larger Namazie Group and help with their many diverse business interests especially the family's vast real estate portfolio.

Shakereh Khaleeli, ( Namazie; 1947–1991), was an Indian real estate developer and philanthropist who was murdered by her second husband, Swami Shradhananda (Murali Manohar Mishra).

She had been previously married to Indian diplomat Akbar Khaleeli, the Indian envoy to Iran and Australia.

Shakereh was born on 27 August 1947 in Madras to an Indian-Persian Muslim family.

He was considered the best tennis player in South India by Ramesh Krishnan but instead joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1954.

He went on to serve in various posts in Delhi, Baghdad, Colombo, Paris and Amman.

In 1965, at age 18, Shakereh married her first cousin Akbar Mirza Khaleeli from Madras.

Their mothers were sisters Shah Taj Begum Khaleeli Mirza and Gauhar Taj Namazie (both daughters of Sir Mirza Ismail).

Akbar Mirza Khaleeli was an outstanding sportsman and student who completed his schooling at Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore and later, Doveton Corrie Protestant Schools Association.

He studied law at Loyola College, Chennai.

They had four daughters with Zeebundeh Khaleeli (b. 1965 in Madras), Sabah Bakache (b. 1966 in Delhi), Rehane Yavar Dhala (b. 1969 in Paris), and Begum Esmath Khaleeli Clark (b. 1972 in Amman, Jordan).

He served as Chief of Protocol in 1976 and later served as Indian Ambassador to Iran.

Shakereh was with him throughout most of his postings, except during the time of the Iranian Revolution.

While her husband was in Iran, Shakereh moved to Bangalore and engaged in construction, following her great-grandfather Agha Aly Asker, known for his buildings in Bangalore.

She first built a family home on Sankey Road, Abshot Layout, and a house for her mother on Ali Asker Road.

She then redeveloped other family properties, evicting some of the tenants.

Murali Manohar Mishra, who had renamed himself as Swami Shradhananda, first met Shakereh and her husband in Bangalore in 1982.

Akbar Mirza Khaleeli then took up a post in Iran and, on his return, Shakereh divorced him.

They divorced in 1984.

Akbar Khaleeli would go on to become Ambassador in Italy.

High Commissioner to Australia and Advisor to the Government on Middle Eastern Affairs.

They divorced in 1985 and she married Shradhananda the following year.

Six months after her divorce, in April 1986, Shakereh "shunned her family and social norms" to marry Shradhananda.

She allowed Shradhananda access to her money and property.

The couple reportedly quarrelled over her relationship with her daughters.

Her family noticed she was missing in 1991 and alerted the police.

In 1991 Sabah, Shakereh's second daughter, found that she was unable to locate her mother.

Despite repeated enquiries about Shakereh's whereabouts to Shradhananda, he consistently avoided giving a proper answer.

In 1992, Sabah filed for a habeas corpus at the Ashok Nagar Police Station in Bangalore.

In 1994, after three years of a sting operation the Karnataka Police got an admission of murder from Shradhananda and he led the police to her remains which were buried in her own home.

She had been drugged, suffocated, and buried in a coffin-like box.

He was convicted of the murder in 2005 and sentenced to death.

The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2008.