LUCKNOW :
A 30-YEAR-OLD delivery
man was allegedly killed by
two persons when he went
to deliver an iPhone to one
of them who was supposed
to pay him Rs 1.5 lakh for
the product, police said
on Monday.
They said his body was
dumpedintotheIndiraCanal
here and a team of the State
Disaster Response Force
(SDRF) has been called to
find it. DCP Shashank Singh
said Gajanan, from Chinhat,
had ordered the iPhone
worth about Rs 1.5 lakh
from Flipkart and opted for
COD (CashonDelivery)payment option.
“On September 23, delivery boy, Bharat Sahu of
Nishatganj, went to deliver
the phone at his place where
hewaskilledbyGajananand
his accomplice. After strangulating Sahu, they put his
body in a sack and disposed
it off in the Indira Canal,” he
said.
When Sahu did not
returnhomefortwodays,his
family registered a missing
persons complaint on
September 25 attheChinhat
Police Station. While scanning Sahu’s call details and
trying to trace his location,
policefoundGajanan’snumber and managed to reach
his friend Akash.
During investigation,
Akashconfessedtothecrime,
he said. Police are yet to find
the body. “The SDRF team is
trying to find the body ofthe
victim in the canal,” he said.