Ghaziabad, February 10: A second year medical student studying in a private college in Meerut has been arrested for allegedly murdering a store keeper, police said.
Deewakar, who assisted his father in running a business of building glass and other hardware items, was taken into custody last night in Muradnagar town for the murder of R K Gupta, 52, they said.
The youth wanted Gupta, a storekeeper at HR Institute of Management here, to inflate the price of the Rs 13 lakh worth glass supplied to the institute by showing a superior quality than was given, they said.
Deewakar allegedly killed Gupta after he refused to do so and threw his body near a canal, they said.
Gupta’s body was recovered yesterday when the storekeeper’s family in Modinagar informed the police that he was missing, they said, adding that Deewakar had allegedly confessed to his crime on being caught.
—-PTI