Overview
- The three KDK College students, arrested Friday hours after the body was found, were later produced in court and remanded in police custody.
- Police say the trio met 44-year-old Suchit Bhojapure late Thursday on a Wardhaman Nagar flyover, offered help, then drove him for an errand to Bhiwapur and toward his home in Wadi.
- Investigators allege they diverted to a secluded patch near the Khadgaon Road crematorium, killed him by striking his head with stones, stripped the body and fled with his red Alto and two phones.
- Crime Branch Unit 1 says CCTV footage, technical surveillance and call logs led them to Aryan Shende after he phoned the victim’s wife on Thursday night.
- Police report an alleged confession, blood on a suspect’s shoe and a recovered car, and they say the plan included changing the number plate and color as they continue the probe.