India, March 9 -- When 33-year-old Uber driver Nasir Salam Ahmed accepted a late-night ride on Thursday, he could not have known it would turn out to be his last.

Ahmed, a resident of Airoli in Navi Mumbai and originally from Uttar Pradesh, had been missing for five days before his body was finally traced to the remote Ganeshkhind area of Malshej Ghat in Ahilyanagar (Ahmednagar) district on Saturday. The Thane Rural Crime Branch has arrested his last passenger, a 21-year-old engineering student, in connection with the case.

The accused has been identified as Adarsh Chandrakant Bhelerao, 21, a second-year engineering student and resident of Titwala.

The case first came to light early on Friday morning when local motorists spotted a Maru...