KANPUR: The police, on Sunday, arrested three persons, including a television actor, in connection with the
murder of a food delivery boy whose body was found in a gunny bag near Armapur canal in Kanpur on September 24. Police said that the murder was suspected to be a fallout of a
love triangle
.
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The policemen also recovered a car belonging to the television actor which was used to dump the body .
Delivery boy Akshay Verma alias Nikki was allegedly killed by Sisamau resident Akash Sahu, the alleged lover of Allahabad-based woman, his uncle Munna and TV artist
Anubhav Jaiswal
, the police said.
"Akash, a salesman at a wine shop in
Gandhinagar area, was in love with a woman from Allahabad. Often, his friend Akshay Verma used to chat with her on phone. Akash learnt that Akshay had been speaking ill about him so that she keeps away from him. This enraged him," police said.
On the night of September 23, Akash asked the actor Anubhav to give him his scooty and later went to Akshay's house. "Akash asked Akshay to accompany him to hi s houes over the pretext of consuming liquor. On reaching there, he offered him a glass of liquor mixed with
sedative
," said a police official, adding, "When Akshay fell unconscious, Akash attacked him with a stick and later strangled him to death."