The Chembur police resorted to an unconventional trick to lure a murder accused into the open and nab him from his hideout at a hotel in Jammu on Saturday, after a three-month-long game of cat and mouse.u00a0

Charanjeet Singh (28) had strangled bar girl and small-time actress Payal Bharadwaj (24) on April 24 at her Adarsh Nagar residence in Chembur and vanished without a trace after she refused his proposal for marriage.