Jaipur: A 29-year-old man in Jaipur was kidnapped and strangled before being chopped into pieces after he refused to pay a ransom of Rs 10 lakh, the police have said.
The chilling crime took place in Rajasthan's capital city but the chopped pieces of the man's body were found packed in a suitcase in New Delhi.
The victim, Dushyant Sharma, was held captive on Wednesday by a woman who he had befriended on a social networking app. The woman, who was accompanied by two of her male friends, demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh from the victim.
She threatened to file a rape case against him when he refused to do so, according to news agency PTI.
The kidnappers held the victim in their rented flat in Jaipur's Bajaj Nagar area, ACP (Jhotwara) Aas Mohammad said. The woman and her friends took away the victim's ATM card and also called up Dushyant Sharma’s father demanding ransom from him. The victim's father deposited Rs 3 lakh into his son's bank account.
A transaction of Rs 20,000 was made from the victim's account after which the accused allegedly strangled him and chopped him into pieces, according to the ACP.
The motive behind carrying out the murder was not clear, especially as the victim's father, complying with the kidnappers, had deposited a portion of the ransom into his son's account.
It was also unclear how Dushyant Sharma's body reached New Delhi, about 270 km away, in a suitcase.
The accused, identified as Priya Seth, 27, and her friends Dikshant Kamra, 25 and Lakshya Walia, 26, were arrested by the Jaipur police on Friday in connection with the crime.
According to police officials, the accused were involved in other criminal cases as well.
(With inputs from PTI)
