Shimla, June 14 -- A day after the brutal murder of a young man from Chandigarh at a hotel near the Dhalli Tunnel in Shimla, police have arrested the main accused, the murdered man's cousin.
The victim, Akash Sharma, son of late Ajay Sharma and resident of Sector 26, Chandigarh, was found dead in Room No. 302 of Hotel Navratan.
He had checked into the hotel on June 11 along with his cousin Arjun Sharma, a resident of Sector 10, Panchkula, Haryana. The two reportedly had an argument on the night of June 12, during which Arjun allegedly hit Akash with a glass bottle and then slit his throat with the broken shard.
Arjun fled on his motorcycle at around 5:17 AM on June 13. The hotel staff discovered Akash's body later that morning and infor...