India, Oct. 22 -- LUCKNOW Returning quietly from Nepal on October 16 while police still believed she was abroad, model Shraddha Dubey kept ahead of investigators for four days through calculated moves and deception. Travelling across Uttar Pradesh with her sister and driver, the main accused in cafe owner Shiva Sharma's death used an alias at an Agra hotel, slipped into Lucknow to sign anticipatory bail papers and ditched a slow cab in Kanpur during a cross-country dash that eventually ended with her arrest in Nagpur.

An investigation timeline and route plan, based on inputs given by the influencer to interrogation officers on Thursday at Hazratganj police station, suggested that Dubey, her sister Rashmi and their driver Danish spent aro...