Overview

• Police took Ashfak Rayan, Vinod Agrawal, Mohammed Umar Munihar, Dashrath Maurya and Yakub Abdul Gaffar into custody on June 1 and have filed murder and related charges.
• Victim Suresh Verma, a 48-year-old labourer from Uttar Pradesh, was tied to a tree and beaten unconscious on the night of May 21 in Bardoli taluka.
• After the assault, the accused demanded Rs 50,000 ransom from Verma’s wife before driving his body to a canal in Kamrej taluka and disposing of it there.
• Verma’s son filed a missing person complaint on May 25, leading police to identify the recovered body, which had already been cremated by Kamrej authorities.
• Authorities have obtained confessions from the five arrested suspects and are still searching for another labourer, Ajay Banwasi, who escaped the scene.