- विज्ञापन -
Kochi: Police in Keral’s Kochi on Saturday arrested three people after a missing man was found dead from a manhole at a catering warehouse, officials said.
Official sources said that Bju Joseph, 50, went missing from near his home on Thursday. On Friday, his family registered a missing person case and police launched their probe.
The police cracked the case after they took into custody a known history-sheeter and based on his statement, arrested Joseph’s former business partner Joemon.
Both Joseph and Joemon, after their business partnership ended, had serious differences of opinion with the former, according to Joemon, owing him a large sum of money.
There were frequent skirmishes between the two and it’s now believed that this enmity ended up with Joseph’s murder.
It was after questioning Joemon, the police got to know that there were two more others involved in the crime and they have also been taken into custody.
Joseph, according to the police, was picked up by this gang and forcefully taken away in a vehicle. Later, he was taken to the catering warehouse and was beaten up, causing his death.
The gang decided to dispose of the body but putting it in a manhole where the food waste was being dumped.
After placing the body there, they used concrete to fill it up and covered it with the remaining food waste.
After the police got the information about the body’s location, a police team, accompanied by forensic experts, reached the warehouse and retrieved the body from the manhole.
