Indian man arrested for murder in alleged plot to fake own death

Police allege Sudesh Kumar tried to pass victim's body off as his own to avoid being tried for another alleged murder

An Indian man who tried to fake his death by murdering a builder and passing the body off as his own has been arrested, police said.

He did it to avoid being tried for another alleged murder, they added - Sudesh Kumar was charged with but not convicted of the 2018 killing of his daughter, who had eloped.