A mutilated body found near Pune last month has been identified as a 22-year-old software engineer, originally from Chennai.

The Pune police believes Sarvanand Ramachandran was murdered by three men who worked at the same company as Ramachandran. The trio allegedly got into a fight with the engineer at a bar. Thy then took him to Katraj Ghat near Pune where they allegedly stoned him to death and then set his body on fire.

The police found the unidentifiable body on January 23. The men accused of killing him were traced after they used his debit card at a shopping mall.