INDORE: Police on Friday solved the mystery behind a five-year-old murder and arrested a man and his two friends for strangulating his father for grabbing his ancestral property in Kanadia area The accused had planned the murder and drove his father to Bisankheda village with his friends on pretext of showing him a farmland for purchase and later strangulated him in the jungles on March 31, 2013.Police had found the body of Surendra Kumar Kataria, 60, a resident of Ashok Nagar, and registered a case of murder. His son, Tarun Kataria, who had lodged a missing complaints report about his father, had identified the body.The investigators could not find any clue about the perpetrators of the crime till recently they got a tip-off about Tarun's possible involvement in the crime.Police rounded him and he confessed having killed his father with the help of his friends Jitendra lias Jitu, 37, of Dwarkapuri and Nattu alias Shakir, 34, of Chandan Nagar.Tarun had often picked up fight with his father since childhood and had been staying separate with his mother. After his mother's death, he started living with his father, but could never have cordial relations with him.Tarun, who runs a mobile shop, got married to Sona Kataria around eight years ago and has a 6-year-old daughter. Sona had miscarriages twice after marriage and Tarun required money for treatment. Surendra had refused to help him.Tarun was fostering the enmity when Jitendra gave him the idea of killing his father and becoming the heir to the land and house. They cooked up the plan and drove Surendra on bikes to the designated spot, before they killed him.The accused took his purse and valuables and threw them over to the river at Kishanpura bridge.Police have arrested the accused and secured a remand from a local court.

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