<p>Five people killed their friend, son of an industrialist, for ransom in Uttar Pradesh's Agra town and later cremated him wearing PPE kits in a bid to avoid being caught.</p>.<p>According to the police sources here, the victim, identified as Sachin Chauhan, was lured by his friends on the pretext of a liquor party and was strangled to death last week.</p>.<p>The alleged killers, all friends of Sachin, were arrested by the police on Monday.</p>.<p>Police said that the perpetrators, some of whom were head over ears in debt, hatched a conspiracy to kill Sachin and then demand a ransom of Rs. two crore from his family.</p>.<p>As per the plan, they took Sachin to a closed water purifying plant on the outskirts of Agra town on the pretext of a liquor party. They later strangled him to death.</p>.<p>They then had Sachin's body wrapped in a plastic bag and put on PPE kits themselves before taking the body to the cremation ghat. They told the staff at the crematorium that the body was that of a man who had died from Covid-19.</p>.<p>They cremated Sachin's body at the cremation ghat and also collected the ashes the next day and immersed them in the Yamuna river.</p>.<p>The case was handed over to the special task force (STF), which arrested all the five accused persons on Monday.</p>
<p>Five people killed their friend, son of an industrialist, for ransom in Uttar Pradesh's Agra town and later cremated him wearing PPE kits in a bid to avoid being caught.</p>.<p>According to the police sources here, the victim, identified as Sachin Chauhan, was lured by his friends on the pretext of a liquor party and was strangled to death last week.</p>.<p>The alleged killers, all friends of Sachin, were arrested by the police on Monday.</p>.<p>Police said that the perpetrators, some of whom were head over ears in debt, hatched a conspiracy to kill Sachin and then demand a ransom of Rs. two crore from his family.</p>.<p>As per the plan, they took Sachin to a closed water purifying plant on the outskirts of Agra town on the pretext of a liquor party. They later strangled him to death.</p>.<p>They then had Sachin's body wrapped in a plastic bag and put on PPE kits themselves before taking the body to the cremation ghat. They told the staff at the crematorium that the body was that of a man who had died from Covid-19.</p>.<p>They cremated Sachin's body at the cremation ghat and also collected the ashes the next day and immersed them in the Yamuna river.</p>.<p>The case was handed over to the special task force (STF), which arrested all the five accused persons on Monday.</p>