AGRA: Dispute over a share in a private hospital led to the murder of a man, whose body was found inside an SUV in UP's Aligarh last week.
Police on Monday arrested three people in connection with murder of businessman Mahinder Singh (28), who ran a private hospital in partnership with Yogesh Mathuriya in Atrauli.
Police said after the two had a fallout due to a dispute in their partnership, Mathuriya planned Singh’s killing along with two accomplices — Devendra and Ajay.
They invited Singh for a drink and then hammered him to death.
The killers then tried to set the body and his vehicle afire but did not succeed as the SUV did not catch fire.
Shubham Patel, SP (rural), told TOI that Mathuriya had paid an advance of Rs 10,000 to his associates for killing his business partner and had promised to give them more money after the murder.
However, he had not specified the balance payments.
The SP said, the suspects have been remanded to judicial custody under IPC sections 302 (murder), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 34 (done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy).
The SP said that the hammer which was used for killing Singh has also been recovered.