Overview

• Ashwini Mallabad, Gururaj Nelogi and Lakshmikant Malipatil were arrested this week and charged with kidnapping and murdering 39-year-old Raghavendra Nayak
• The victim went missing on March 12 after leaving his home in Ganesh Nagar in search of work and his body was later recovered from the Krishna River near Shaktinagar
• Investigators say the trio lured Nayak to a graveyard in Krishna Nagar, where they beat him to death with sticks before dumping his body into the river
• Police uncovered the motive by analyzing call detail records, WhatsApp messages and CCTV footage that revealed a dispute following the end of a live-in relationship
• Authorities are examining forensic findings in digital records to determine whether additional accomplices participated in the conspiracy