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.