The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, who was found charred to death in Delhi, was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by his partner, police said.

According to a Hindustan Times report, three men have been arrested in related the incident and Ghaziabad police claimed that the prime accused was in a 'homosexual relationship' with the victim. “During the investigation, we came to know that the victim and Tayyab were in a homosexual relationship and the victim allegedly had a video on the basis of which he was forcing the prime accused to stay with him in a rented flat. To get rid of the victim, Tayyab called him to Loni on the night of the incident. They mixed sleeping pills in a pack of ‘halwa’ they purchased and offered it to the victim," police was quoted as saying by HT.

According to police, all the three accused robbed the 44-year-old AAP victim of Rs 7.85 lakh after the victim was drugged.

The charred body of Naveen Kumar was found in his car in Loni-Bhopra road. His family had filed an FIR for murder at Sahibabad police station in Ghaziabad.

“Naveen was into event management and would organise gay parties at prominent hotels in Delhi. I met him through a common acquaintance in November last year in Ghaziabad. Thereafter we went for a camping trip near Rishikesh around 4-5 months ago where he prepared a video at night inside the tent in which we were sleeping,” the prime accused Tayyab had told police.

Tayyab also said that Naveen used to 'blackmail' him to make the video public and forced him to stay with him in a rented flat in Chhattarpur area. However, after Tayyub refused his offer, Naveen kept on blackmailing him.