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Jammu: Three people were arrested for allegedly killing a 17-year-old boy with a sharp-edged weapon here, police said on Tuesday.
Ajay Kumar, a resident of Bhatyari village in Bishnah, was found dead near his house on the outskirts of Jammu around midnight on January 13.
Kumar was a bus conductor and had had an altercation over some issue with the accused a few days earlier, police said.
"The murder case was solved with the arrest of all three accused -- Anmol Sharma (24), Nikhil Sharma (29) and Nishant Choudhary (23), all residents of Samba district. They confessed to the crime, revealing that the murder stemmed from a personal rivalry," a police spokesman said.
He added that two sharp-edged weapons and a car used in the crime had been seized.