India, Oct. 21 -- A double murder has shocked Rajasthan's border district of Jaisalmer after a local trader and his accountant were found dead near Mohangarh on Tuesday morning. The blood-soaked bodies were discovered around 8:30a.m., about six kilometres from the town in the new mandi area.

According to the police, the killings took place late on Diwali night. It came to light when the temple priest Pokar Puri, who had gone for morning prayers, stopped by to greet trader Madanlal Saraswat for Diwali. As he approached Madanlal's shop to say "Ram Ram", he noticed blood on the ground and saw the lifeless bodies of Madanlal and his accountant, Revantram.

Madanlal, a grain merchant originally from Saruna village in Bikaner, operated two sho...