India, April 12 -- A Ghaziabad man has been arrested over the death of a 24-year-old on March 19 whose body was found near the Bijli Bamba bypass, Meerut, officers said on Friday.

Police identified the deceased as Mohammad Shadab, a resident of Radhna Inayatpur village under Kithor police station area of Meerut district, and the suspect as his friend Yash Saini, a resident of Krishnanagar, Ghaziabad, who allegedly killed him following a dispute over a borrowed motorcycle (by Shadab).

Officers said that Shadab's face and head had been brutally crushed with a brick, making identification difficult. A murder case was registered against unknown people at the Lohia Nagar police station, and after three days with no leads, police got a post-m...