The Gujarat police have arrested two persons from Odisha’s Ganjam district for allegedly kidnapping and killing a 40-year-old businessman in Surat.
The arrested have been identified as Mukesh Sahu and Ravi Behera.
Businessman and moneylender Jagdish Patel had gone missing since October 2 and was later found dead at a village near Sayan town.
According to police sources, Mukesh Sahu had borrowed Rs 1 lakh from Patel and later repaid Rs 30,000. When Patel asked Sahu, owner of a small restaurant in Anjani industrial estate in Surat, to repay the remaining amount of Rs 70,000, the latter allegedly hatched a plan to eliminate Patel.
Sahu and Ravi Behera asked Patel to come to Sayan on October 2. When he reached there, the duo attacked him on his head killing him on the spot.
After his death, they telephoned Patel’s son Vikas and asked him for a ransom of Rs 40 lakh for his father’s release. Meanwhile, they dumped Patel’s body at Kareli village near Sayan and fled the spot.
Vikas soon lodged a complaint of abduction with the Amroli police, following which cops examined the list of persons to whom Patel had lent money.
Sahu and Behera were later arrested after being traced out by police on the basis of their mobile phone locations. During questioning, they confessed to killing Patel.