The Dehradun police have arrested three persons for murder of a contractor who was missing since June 30. The body of the missing contractor was recovered from a Tea estate in Vikanagar by the police team.
The contractor, Karamchand, was a resident of Chaman Vihar, Niranjanpur and was missing since 30. SSP Sadamand Date informed newsmen in a press conference on Thursday that the police team have arrested Vishal, Sagar and Suraj for murder of Karamchand.
The trio has accepted their involvement in the crime and on interrogation has revealed that the Karamchand used to take their services for the contracts he used to take. They claimed that Karamchand was not paying them a sum of `25,000 which he owed them for a long period of time. On the fateful they called up the contractor on pretext of showing a new work and strangulated him in a desolate place in Tea Estate and disposed off the body in a bush.
The activa of the contractor was found in the possession of the accused.