India, April 23 -- A week after a 47-year-old businessman from Ganjam district was reported missing, police on Thursday said his 23-year-old niece conspired with her boyfriend and hired contract killers to abduct and murder him in a revenge plot linked to family disputes.

The high-profile case involving the missing real estate businessman, Sudhir Kumar Patra, from the Gopalpur area of Ganjam district was linked to festering intra-family resentment over property, eventually leading to his abduction and murder.

All the nine accused in the case were arrested from multiple locations following coordinated raids based on technical surveillance and field intelligence, police said.

Patra was abducted at gunpoint on the evening of April 15 whil...