Mumbai: 27-year-old unemployed man kills live-in partner, a 40-year-old nurse over money

Reports said,after the murder,the accused  Hardik Shah hid the body of girlfriend Megha Torvi in a bed box on last  Saturday. After the murder, Hardik Shah sold the furniture and other utensils of his rented house in Nalasopara (East) and took a train ticket to Rajasthan and fled.

Local police with the help of Railway Protection Force took Shah into custody from Nagda railway junction in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. A team of Tulinj police took Hardik Shah to Mumbai and arrested him on Wednesday. A city court sent him to police custody till February 21,according to reports.

Senior Inspector Shailendra Nagarkar of Tulinj Police said that Megha Torvi was killed by Hardik Shah on Saturday. He did not have money to buy a train ticket to Rajasthan. He decides to sell the contents of the house in Sita Sadan to a scrap dealer and puts Torvi's dead body in a bed box. He didn't sell that bed.

Megha Torvi was working as a nurse while Hardik Shah did not have a job. Police suspect that the two had a fight over money and Shah strangulated Torvi in a fit of rage. While going to Rajasthan on Monday, he messaged Torvi's relative that her body was lying in the bed storage and he was going to commit suicide.

The relative told the property dealer who had given the flat to both of them on rent about three weeks ago contacted the local Tulinj police. By the time the police reached the house, the neighbors had complained of foul smell coming from the house. Police recovered the dead body by breaking the door.