A co-worker, suspicious about a man who kept to himself, and never gave his mobile number, spoke to a police officer he knew about him, and helped uncover a family for a murder. The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested the 35-year-old man, who had mislead the Uttar Pradesh police, with the help of his family, to frame his in-laws for his ‘murder’.

He had moved to Mira Road and worked in a cloth factory, where the co-worker got suspicious. Accused Pannelal Yadav, from Maharajganj district in Uttar Pradesh, had asked his family to blame his parents-in-law, brother-in-law, and wife for killing him and disposing of his body. The UP police had registered an FIR against them under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing the disappearance of evidence) of Indian Penal Code.