Four days after the police found a body near Mahim creek under the Raheja Bridge, the Shahu Nagar and Crime Branch officials have managed to solve the mystery behind the gruesome killing.

Police officials said the victim was murdered by three of his roommates after he falsely blamed them for doctoring a woman’s picture and circulating it via social media.

According to the police, the deceased had morphed the face of another friend’s wife onto a naked lady’s picture, and circulated the image through a popular messaging service. When the husband received the picture on his phone and inquired about it, the deceased person, however, told him that his roommate had morphed the pictured.

When the husband called the roommate and confronted him, he pleaded innocence. After getting to know of his friend’s treachery, he planned the killing. Police arrested two of the murderers yesterday, while the third is absconding.

Cops had found the body with severe injuries and a deep slit to the throat on Monday. The cops were finding it difficult to identify the body. But, a day later, a Bandra resident approached the police stating that his brother was missing. He later identified the body as that of his sibling, Asif Rabiullah Shaikh (22). Cops, however, were baffled while trying to ascertain the motive behind the murder.

Asif, a resident of Behrampada, Bandra (East) was employed as a garment worker and hailed from Nandigram in West Bengal. He resided with three other people, from his hometown.

“After the body was identified, we immediately went to check on his roommates, said Sunil Deshmukh, ACP, Mahim division.