KANPUR, Sept. 24 -- Seventeen days after pharmaceutical trader Vineet Minocha, 63, was murdered, police claimed to have made three key breakthroughs during the custodial interrogation of the accused. Former employee Vishal Gautam has allegedly named Minocha's son Subrat as the person who asked the accused to carry out the murder; the duplicate key to the flat has been recovered from an open plot; and blood-stained clothes allegedly worn by accused Raj Kishore have been recovered from Kanpur Central.

Police sources associated with the investigation said Vishal Gautam named Subrat during questioning and alleged that he had asked the accused to commit the murder. Subrat was subsequently confronted with Vishal, Raj Kishore and his wife Shalu...