Muzaffarnagar: Man arrested for killing brother-in-law to grab land

A man was arrested here for allegedly abducting and murdering his bror-in-law last year in order to grab his land, police said on Wednesday. accused, Sunder, was arrested on Tuesday, y said.

A case was registered on January 7, 2019, after family of Amit Kumar, a native of Nara vill under Mansurpur police station, reported him missing. Later, it was found that Sunder was behind it, police said.

During interrogation, Sunder confessed that he abducted Amit and strangulated him to death. He dumped body in a canal, y said.

Amit's far owned 22 bigha of agricultural land. After his far died, he was sole owner of land. Sunder wanted to grab land after killing Amit, y said. 

(Representational Im)