Suraj Sahu, in his 20s, had abducted 15-year-old Raj Pandey on Thursday from Indiramata Nagar in MIDC and took him to the forest adjoining Salai Godhni on a bike where he stoned him to death before slitting the veins of the victim’s right hand with a surgical blade to avenge the victim’s family having shifted his childhood friend-turned-lady love to Banaras where she got married. The perpetrator, who was demanding the beheaded picture of Pandey’s uncle as a ransom, was also upset, claiming the man had raped his mother six years ago and also got him injured in an accident. Pandey, whose body was found in the early hours of Friday, was killed even as family and friends kept on negotiating with the abductor with a false hope. During one of the talks, Pandey was heard howling in the recorded audio clip, pleading to his mother Geeta and others to get him released while shuddering. After failing to convince Sahu, family and friends rushed to seek police help but by then, it was too late. Cops claimed that Sahu kept on negotiating by concealing the murder. City police chief Amitesh Kumar and different units of Nagpur police were engaged in searching for the abductor until he was nabbed at Borkhedi by a team of Sonegaon police. Family and police sources said separation from the woman prompted Sahu to plot the murder. Incidentally, it was victim Pandey through whom Sahu sent messages to his lady love, said a family member. Pandey was the girl’s cousin brother. MIDC police, after registering a case of kidnapping and murder, also produced Sahu before the court which remanded him in custody till June 14.