Mohali, May 23 -- Eight days after the decomposed body of a 36-year-old man from Mauli Baidwan village was found in the forest area in Sector 78, Mohali police on Thursday arrested a 24-year-old, who confessed to murdering the victim with the intention of robbing him for buying drugs. The victim was identified as Sureshpal. Addressing the media on Thursday, senior superintendent of police (SSP), Mohali, Harmandeep Singh Hans said the accused has been identified as Mukesh Kumar, a native of Hanuman Mandir, Kataria Station village, Bhagalpur district, Bihar. Mukesh ran a tyre repair shop and lived in Sohana. He is reportedly a habitual drug user. Police apprehended him while he was fleeing near Gurdwara Singh Shaheedan. He sustained injuries during the escape and is currently undergoing treatment at Sohana Hospital. The SSP stated that during interrogation, Mukesh also confessed that he is illiterate. The interrogation further revealed that Mukesh already had two criminal cases registered against him at the Sohana police station, one in 2018 and another in 2019, involving charges of assault, robbery, and theft. In this case, an FIR was initially registered against an unidentified person under Sections 103(1) (punishment for murder) and 3(5) (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at the Sohana police station. Mukesh has now been named as the accused....