Ghaziabad Landlord Arrested For PhD Scholar's Murder: "Sawed Body, Dumped In Canal"
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The victim had recently sold his ancestral land in Baghpat from which he had got Rs 1 crore, which the killer was eyeing, police said
In a murder case that took over two months to unravel, police on Wednesday arrested a man named Umesh Sharma from Modinagar in UP's Ghaziabad district for allegedly killing his tenant, Ankit Khokar, and chopping his body into pieces that he threw in a canal.
The victim had recently sold his ancestral land in Baghpat from which he had got Rs 1 crore, which the killer was eyeing, police said. A friend of the killer, identified as Parvesh, has also been arrested.
Ankit Khokar lived alone ever since his parents died some years ago, and was a PhD scholar enrolled with a university in Lucknow.
Police got involved only after his friends tried searching for him as they sensed something wrong when he did not answer calls for weeks. When they started receiving some messages from his number, they found that the conversation style wasn't his, and that calls were still not being answered.
