NEW DELHI, Oct 1: A 30-year-old delivery man was allegedly killed when he went to deliver an iPhone to a customer who had opted for Cash on Delivery and was supposed to pay Rs 1.5 lakh for the product on delivery in Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Monday.
The police said the delivery man’s body was dumped into the Indira Canal and a team of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has been called to find it. Deputy Commissioner of Police Shashank Singh said Gajanan, from Chinhat, had ordered the iPhone worth about Rs 1.5 lakh from Flipkart and opted for COD (Cash on Delivery) payment option.
“On September 23, delivery boy, Bharat Sahu of Nishatganj, went to deliver the phone at his place where he was killed by Gajanan and his accomplice. After strangulating Sahu, they put his body in delivery man’s sack and disposed it off in the Indira Canal,” he said.
When Sahu did not return home for two days, his family registered a missing person complaint on September 25 at the Chinhat police station. While scanning Sahu’s call details and trying to trace his location, police found Gajanan’s number and managed to reach his friend Akash.
During interrogation, Akash confessed to the crime, the DCP said. Police are yet to find the body. “The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) team is trying to find the body of the victim in the canal,” the officer said.
(Manas Dasgupta)
