Alleged killer of Mumbai trader held in UP

The STF and a team of Mumbai police arrested Nagendra alias Monu from his native Masuriya village in Gorakhpur, STF sources said.

Nagendra and his accomplice Anil Kumar Yadav of Pratapgarh allegedly murdered Shankar Dinkar Rai who ran an embroidary factory in Ghatkopar police station area of Mumbai on November 5 last and had fled with cash.

The duo, who were workers in the factory, had hit Rai on the head with a stone and later stangulated him with computer cable, sources said.

Yadav was earlier arrested on November 10, the sources said adding the mobile phone of the decased was also recovered from Monu.