India, Oct. 2 -- LUCKNOW A Rs.50 lakh ransom plot allegedly ended in a double murder after five men abducted a Lucknow assistant nursing superintendent and his associate, held them captive and strangled them when they couldn't extract the money, police said on Friday. The accused allegedly took the bodies to Chahlari Ghat in Sitapur and dumped them into the Ghaghra river.

The bodies of Pawan Kumar Garg, 45, and Sachin Vishwakarma, in his mid thirties, had not been recovered till Friday evening. Teams of the State Disaster Response Force, water police, Provincial Armed Constabulary, divers and local police were conducting a search at the ghat.

The five accused-Nitin Mishra, Avneesh Kumar Maurya, Prakash Singh, Suraj Singh and Mohit Singh...