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A 30-year-old delivery man was allegedly killed when he went to deliver an iPhone to a customer who had to pay Rs 1.5 lakh for the product, police said on Monday.
His body was dumped in the Indira Canal here and a team of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has been called to search for it, they said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Shashank Singh said Gajanan, from Chinhat, had ordered an iPhone worth around Rs 1.5 lakh from Flipkart and opted for the COD (cash on delivery) payment option.
“On September 23, Bharat Sahu, a delivery boy from Nishatganj, went to deliver the phone to his place where he was murdered by Gajanan and his accomplice. After strangling Sahu, they put his body in a sack and dumped it in the Indira Canal. I threw up,” he said.
When Sahu did not return home for two days, his family filed a missing persons complaint at Chanhat police station on September 25.
While scanning Sahu’s call details and trying to trace his location, the police trace Gajanan’s number and manage to reach his friend Akash.
During interrogation, Akash confessed to the crime, the DCP officer said.
Police have not found the body yet.
“A team of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) is trying to find the body of the victim in the canal,” the officer said.
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