pune a magistrate court on friday night sent architect santosh bhukan accused of kidnapping and killing his exreceptionist vaishali kadam to police custody remand till september 1the police are on the look out for the man who sent smses from vaishalis cell phone to her family members from various places the police said that bhukans car and articles which he had used for committing the gruesome crime have not yet been recoveredthe police have sought time to conduct detailed investigations and recover vaishalis garments ornaments cell phone and the rope used to strangulate her the police are also trying to find out if any other person helped bhukan in the crime the police produced bhukan at magistrate mamulkars queens garden road residence at about 10 pm senior police inspector prakash garge of the airport police station has taken over the investigations from subinspector yashwant nikam considering the gravity of the crimebhukans lawyer opposed the police plea on the ground that the investigating officer had completed the investigations and that his further detention with the police was not essential the lawyer pleaded to send bhukan to magisterial custody however the court sent bhukan to police custody for five days meanwhile garge told toi on saturday that the victims body was exhumed in the presence of tehsildhar and panch witnesses from the farmhouse of bhukan at ponde village at malshiras in purandhar talukathe sassoon general hospital which performed the postmortem confirmed the cause of death as strangulation the police have handed over the victims body to her father pandurang shinde of karad on saturday the family members took the body to her husband vinayak kadams village at sangli for the funeralbhukan had taken vaishali to his farmhouse at malshiras to kill her after she insisted he marries her he offered her a cold drink spiked with sleeping pills in his car itself when vaishali fell unconscious he dragged her out of the vehicle and strangled her with a rope he buried her body in a ditch plastered the grave with mud and put an iron grill over itafter killing her bhukan used vaishalis mobile to sent smses to her relatives including her sister manisha telling them she is fine and will be back home soonhowever when vaishali did not return home till august 14 manisha lodged a complaint with the airport police during investigations the police learnt of vaishalis affair with bhukan and summoned him during interrogation bhukan admitted to have killed vaishali and buried her body