Ghaziabad, May 5 -- A 42-year-old senior executive of a multi-national company was allegedly murdered during a robbery bid on Friday night while heading home from work. His family found the body in a drain on the roadside about a kilometre from their home in Rajendra Nagar, Sahibabad, police said on Saturday.

According to police, the victim, Vinay Tyagi, was a national business head with a company and was transferred from Kolkata about a month ago. He used to take the Metro home.

"He called home around 10.30pm and asked us to pick him up. Soon, he called again, saying that he will come himself. After he did not arrive till midnight, we went to look for him. He had earlier sent us his location, but we could not find him there... It appea...