Gurugram, Sept. 7 -- A 59-year-old doctor was strangled to death by two people including his close friend in a car parked at Punhana in Nuh and his body was dumped in river Ganga in Haridwar, police said on Saturday. The murder took place on the night of August 28, said police officers familiar with the case. The deceased was identified as Dr Vinod Goyal who lived in Punhana and ran a hospital and an ultrasound centre. The prime accused was identified as Deepak Kumar alias Deepak Rajasthani, 42, also a resident of Punhana. The suspect, a former ward councillor, owns a utensil manufacturing factory there and was close friend of Goyal since 2012, said police. Police said that Kumar was detained for questioning on Friday night and was arrested on Saturday after he confessed to killing Goyal. Jitender Kumar Rana, Punhana deputy superintendent of police (DSP), said that Kumar had taken an overall loan of Rs.23 lakh in instalments from Goyal in the last few years. "Recently, Goyal asked Kumar if he could return some of the amount. Kumar feared that he may have to return the entire amount soon and thus planned the murder," said DSP Rana. Rana said that Kumar asked Goyal to meet him near his factory on the night of August 28. "As soon as Goyal sat on the front seat of Kumar's car, his associate and Kumar strangukated him," he said. Investigators said that after the murder, Kumar and Gupta placed the body in the boot of the car and left it parked inside the factory. Meanwhile, Kumar sent a message from Goyal's mobile phone to one of his hospital staff and his family that he was going out of the town. On the next day, Kumar asked Mohammad Mustakeem, a pickup van driver for his factory, to drive him to Palwal in his car. However, midway, Kumar changed plans and asked Mustakeem to take him and Gupta to Haridwar for taking a bath in Ganga, said police. On the night of August 29, they reached Haridwar after which Kumar and Gupta dumped the body in the river and returned on August 30. However, Mustakeen had grown suspicious as Kumar kept spraying perfume inside the car throughout the journey to cover the foul smell. Inspector Rajesh Kumar Yadav, station house officer of City Punhana police station, said that the trio returned to Nuh on August 30. "Goyal's family had filed a missing complaint on September 3," he said, adding that Mustakeem approached police on Friday night when he came to know that the doctor was missing and told them about the trip to Haridwar and Kumar spraying perfume. Kumar confessed to the crime, after he was detained for questioning, his associate was yet to be arrested, said Yadav, adding that the missing person's complaint was turned into a murder case on Saturday....