An east Delhi businessman, who had been missing for the past one month and was feared to have been kidnapped, was allegedly murdered by four persons in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh to avoid paying Rs 3.5 lakh which they borrowed from him.
Police today claimed to have solved the case of kidnap-cum-murder of Naresh Sahni with the arrest of one Rajnish Mishra (22) from Pilibhit. Police have also recovered the victim's bones from Panipat where they had dumped him and after murder.
"Mishra was arrested recently by a police team from Dayalpur village in Panipat and a few bones, skull and clothes of Naresh were recovered today from Panipat," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Ajay Kumar.
Sahni went missing on January 26 this year and a case was registered at Vivek Vihar police station on a complaint lodged by his wife. She reported that her husband had gone to Panipat to meet a person whom he had lent some amount, Kumar said.
"Surveillance and monitoring was used to track the activities of the suspected persons and information was received that one of the kidnapper is in Pilibhit from where he was later arrested," he said.
During interrogation, Mishra, who works as a security guard confessed that he was offered Rs 1.5 lakh by his three associates to kill Naresh from whom they had taken a loan of Rs 3.5 lakh. All the four hatched a conspiracy and called him to Panipat where he was drugged and killed, police said.
"Efforts are being made to apprehend the remaining three accused persons," Kumar added.
