India, Sept. 10 -- Police on Tuesday said they have recovered the remains of a body from Haridwar that had been dumped in the Ganga after a murder in Punhana, Nuh, on August 28.

Investigators said a crime branch team from Nuh travelled to Haridwar, where they learnt that local police had pulled out a decomposed body from the river last week. Family members, who accompanied the team, identified it through clothes and a finger ring recovered from the body.

The victim was identified as Dr Vinod Goyal, 59, a resident of Punhana who owned a hospital and ultrasound centre in the town. He was allegedly strangled to death by his close friend and former ward councillor Deepak Kumar, alias Deepak Rajasthani, 42, inside the latter's Hyundai Venue ...