Jharkhand man murdered over Rs 1 crore loan settlement dispute, accused arrested
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The loan recovery agent had been reported missing by his family. His body was later recovered from a house in a residential society in Dhanbad.
A loan recovery agent was allegedly murdered, and his body recovered from a residential flat in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad, police said on Sunday. The victim, identified as Amit Kumar Agarwal, was reported missing by his family. His body was found inside a flat belonging to a man named Vikas Khandelwal at Surya Highland Society in Dhanbad's Sadar area.
Police said that Vikas Khandelwal was arrested and confessed to the crime during interrogation.
Acting on technical surveillance and mobile phone location data, the police detained Khandelwal and questioned him, following which the body was recovered based on the information provided by the accused.
After recovery, the body was taken into custody and sent for post-mortem examination to Shaheed Nirmal Mahto Memorial Medical College Hospital, police confirmed.
DSP (Law and Order) Naushad Alam said the murder was linked to a financial dispute.
"Preliminary investigation suggests that there was an ongoing dispute between the accused and the deceased over a loan settlement amounting to nearly Rs 1 crore. This dispute appears to be the motive behind the killing," he said.
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