India, March 11 -- A 31-year-old scrap dealer from Delhi was allegedly stabbed to death after being brought to Faridabad over a financial dispute, police said on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Mohammad Arib, a resident of Daryaganj in Delhi. Police said his partially decomposed body with multiple stab injuries was recovered from a large plot with dense vegetation in Sector 60 between 3.15pm and 3.30pm on Tuesday, though investigators said the murder had taken place on Friday.

Police said stray animals had partially mutilated the body before it was discovered.

Investigators said Arib's family had filed a missing person's complaint at Chandi Mahal police station in Delhi on Saturday, following which an FIR for wrongful restraint...