West Bengal man's body exhumed from Jharkhand, 1 held for abduction, murder

The body of a 35yearold man from West Bengal who was allegedly abducted and murdered was on Friday exhumed from a forest in Jharkhands SeraikelaKharsawan district a police officer saidA police team from Dalkhola in West Bengals North Dinajpur district along with the Kandra police exhumed the body from Champanagar forest here in the presence of a magistrate the police officer saidThe forest area comes under the jurisdiction of Burudih Panchayat of the SeraikelaKharsawan district he saidThe victim identified as Zakir Hussain a resident of Dalkhol of North Dinajpur district of West Bengal had come to a village under Kandra police station on September 26 to meet the accused Videsh Mardi the police officer saidMardi had asked Zakir to come to his village so that he could introduce the latter to some labourersZakir used to supply labourers to companies and Mardi had worked as a Munshi assistant uacutender the victim in Bengaluru earlierMardi on that day allegedly extracted over Rs 95000 from Zakir the officer saidHe transferred the money to an account which belonged to one of Mardis friends after he was beaten up by the accused the OfficerinCharge of Kandra police station Anjani Kumar saidMardi had called up the victims wife and demanded Rs 50000 more He also threatened to kill Zakir if his demand was not met Kumar saidThe victims wife immediately registered a complaint with the police as she apprehended that her husband was abducted for ransomAfter tracking Mardis mobile phones location the West Bengal police along with the Kandra police arrested the accused on Friday Kumar saidMardi tried to mislead the police during interrogation but failed to do so the police officer saidThe joint police team went to the spot where Zakirs body was buried exhumed it in the presence of a magistrate and sent it for postmortem examination Kumar saidHe said the victims belongings including his bag were also recovered from the same spotThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever