Javed is believed to have played a key role in bringing him there owing to Lokhre’s lure for cheap gold. “In the past too, the builder had sourced cheap gold from those elements in MP via Javed, who was very trusted by the Lokhre family,” a source privy to the ongoing investigations said.While Lokhre who came to MP last month stayed back at a lodge in Omkareshwar (Khandwa), he sent driver Javed back to bring Rs 15 lakh from Maharashtra to get the gold at half price from locals in Khargone.A few days after Javed returned with the money to MP, Lokhre’s phone started sounding switched off on September 27. When Javed returned to Maharashtra on October 3, the builder’s family asked him about Lokhre, but he told them that Lokhre had gone to Kolkata.However, unable to contact Lokhre, his kin came to MP, after lodging a missing person complaint in Maharashtra. The MP and Maharashtra police found Lokhre’s half-burnt body in the jungles on Wednesday, after which Javed was detained by police and a case of murder was registered at Sanawad police station in MP’s Khargone district.A primary police probe suggests that Javed, out of the lure of Rs 15 lakh brought from Maharashtra for Lokhre to buy cheap gold, strangulated the builder with the help of local contacts and then tried to burn the body in the jungles.Investigations also suggest that after the murder, Javed had gone to Mumbai to buy a tempo.
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