A man has been arrested for allegedly killing his cousin who objected to his advances towards a girl with whom the victim's marriage had been fixed, police said on Friday. Ghaziabad's Superintendent of Police (Rural) Iraj Raja said with the arrest of Harun, a cousin of the slain youth Faiyaz of Lal Pur village in Hapur district, the Masuri police has been able to solve a blind murder case.

The police are on the lookout for another accused Sahil, the son of a maternal uncle of Harun, he said. Faiyaz's body was found near a canal in a Masuri police station area on October 30 and the police had to bury the body as that of an unidentified person after waiting for the mandatory period for someone to turn up and identify and claim it. The police, however, had uploaded the man's face on several social media platforms resulting in Faiyaz's elder brother Nawab reaching the police station and identifying him. Nawab told police that Faiyaz's marriage had been fixed with his sister-in-law (wife's sister), who had come to stay with him sometime back.