KANPUR, Nov. 1 -- In a chilling cross-state conspiracy, a property dealer from Orai in Uttar Pradesh's Jalaun district has been arrested for allegedly hiring three contract killers to murder his own son (in his twenties), whose body was subsequently dumped in a forested area in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district, said Orai Kotwali station house officer (SHO) Anand Kumar Singh on Saturday.

Driven by frustration over his eldest son's chronic drug addiction and failed treatment, Orai-based property dealer Rashid Ansari allegedly orchestrated a murder plot that moved from Uttar Pradesh to a forest in Madhya Pradesh, he added.

The SHO described the operation as a pre-planned conspiracy, stating that Rashid, a resident of Orai's Shivpuri localit...