Three men have been arrested on suspicion of kidnap and murder after the death of a Leicester jeweller. Ramniklal Jogiya was discovered in Gaulby Lane, Stoughton, at about 10:00 GMT on Thursday.
Three men, aged 19, 20 and 23, and all from Leicester, have been arrested and remain in custody.
Leicestershire Police said they believed Mr Jogiya was "taken against his will" after a break-in at his shop on Belgrave Road on Wednesday. Police have also released a CCTV image of a person seen pulling a shopping trolley and wearing a burkha in the shop just minutes after Mr Jogiya locked up on Wednesday evening.
A post-mortem examination has been carried out but further tests were being conducted to "absolutely establish the cause of death", police said.
Two men, aged 18 and 22, have been taken into custody, Leicestershire Police confirmed this afternoon. The men’s detention brings to five the number of suspects arrested in connection with the 74-year-old’s suspected abduction and death.
Meanwhile members of the community have been coming forward to help understand how Mr Joguya disappeared. A special meeting also that took place Monday to discuss safety concerns from the community after Mr Jogiya's death, he added. Detectives investigating the kidnap and death of Belgrave jeweller Ramniklal Jogiya have made two further arrests.
Milesh Amhta, 56, who runs the imitation jewellery section of Mr Jogiya’s Golden Mile business, Vama, was called by Mr Jogiya's worried family at 8pm on Wednesday.
Mr Amhta said: "The family phoned me to say that he hadn't come home at the time that he normally would. I went to the shop straightaway, and the door was unlocked, which was a bit odd. His wife was with me too, as well as his sisters, and I went to see if I could see anything to indicate where he went.”
In a statement this afternoon, Leicestershire Police said: “Two men aged 18 and 22 from Leicester have been arrested on suspicion of kidnap and murder and are currently in police custody.
“Three men, aged 19, 20 and 23, all from Leicester, arrested on suspicion of kidnap and murder remain in police custody being questioned by detectives. A warrant of further detention has been granted by magistrates’ today.”
According to information given by the family sources of Ramanikalal Jogia to Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar, Ramniklal Jogia is from Batwa village of Saurashtra and 35 years ago he settled here from Tanzania’s Kigoma. Ramniklal has been associated with jewellery business in Leicester since last 25 years and is currently working with Milesbhai (Shah) in the name of Wama Collections. Mileshbhai hold the half part of shop and were selling imitation jewellery while Ramniklal was trading in real gold jewellery.
Ramniklal's desire was to retire by delivering the remaining part of the shop to Mileshbhai.
Ramniklal had earlier had a jewellery show room named Yamuna Jewellers Ramniklal has 3 children in the family and he lived nearby with his wife. Police has not yet handed over the bodies to Ramakantbhai’s family and other investigations, including postmortem, are ongoing.
