Ghaziabad, Dec. 3 -- Two people were arrested from Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad, near the Delhi-Meerut expressway, on Tuesday for the alleged murder of a 42-year-old cab driver last month whose car they wanted to use for kidnapping a minor for ransom, said police officials.

Police identified the prime suspect as 27-year-old Najafgarh resident Govind Kumar and his accomplice as Shani (single name), 21, a resident of Barola. The two are friends and originally from Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh. The victim was Najafgarh local, Hariram Poddar.

They planned the kidnapping of a transporter's son in Delhi's Najafgarh but ended up murdering on November 20.

Both Kumar and Shani work as construction workers and had started working about two month...