India, April 25 -- A merchant navy officer was arrested from his Barasat apartment in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district for allegedly kidnapping and murdering a 30-year-old woman he met on social media.

On April 22, the Bidhannagar police had recovered a trolley bag with a body inside from a drain in Baguihati. They identified the deceased as Riya Dhar, a resident of Nabagram in West Bengal's Murshidabad.

After scanning CCTV footage, the Bidhannagar police reached Fortune Heights apartment complex in Barasat on Friday to arrest the suspect, Kaushik Pramanik, and learnt that the Murshidabad police had already arrested Pramanik two days ago on the charges of abducting the same woman whose body was found in the trolley bag.

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