India, June 19 -- A 64-year-old man who had been missing from Gurugram's Khandsa area for a week was allegedly beaten to death by three of his neighbours, who then burnt his body in a secluded open plot to destroy evidence, police said on Friday.

The murder came to light after the three suspects - Vishesh Tomar (18) from Ghaziabad, Mithun (30) from Bulandshahr, and Sandeep (41) from Haryana's Sonipat district - were detained on Thursday night. They allegedly confessed to the crime, leading investigators to a site where charred bone fragments believed to be those of the deceased were recovered.

Mithun, an auto-rickshaw driver, has multiple assault cases registered against him in Ghaziabad and Gurugram, while Sandeep, who is in the dairy ...