A contractor in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district received a ransom note threatening that failure to pay ransom money would result in the ‘deth’ of his brother.
Mishrikh circle officer (CO), Rajesh Kumar said preliminary examination of the body suggested that the assailants hacked the mahant to death with a sharp-edged weapon and thereafter cut the body using some other weapon and disposed it of after stuffing it into a jute bag.