KOZHIKODE: The CB-CID, on Thursday, arrested a 53-year-old man in connection with the murder of a hitman who he had hired to murder his mother fours years ago.Birju, a native of West Manassery near Mukkom, was arrested two years after dismembered body parts of Ismayil Puthiyothu from Malappuram was recovered from the district.According to police, Birju murdered his mother Jayavalli,70, in March, 2016, with the help of Ismayil, a goon, to get hold of her property. Later, they hanged her in bedroom and presented it as suicide. Birju had offered Ismayil Rs 10 lakh for the crime. However, after the incident, Birju failed to keep his word following which Ismayil started threatening him. Later, Birju turned against Ismayil and strangled him to death at his residence in June, 2017.“He then dismembered the body parts using surgical blades and abandoned them in three different sacks. While the arms, legs and the head were dumped in a river, the torso was dumped along with slaughterhouse waste in Karassery,” Tomin J Thachankary, ADGP crime said.Police, with the help of DNA examination, had earlier confirmed that the dismembered body parts recovered from various parts of Kozhikode belonged to the same person. Later, experts cross matched the finger prints in police records with the finger prints of the deceased to confirm his identity. Ismayil was an accused in many thefts and burglary cases in Malappuram.Police turned their focus on Birju when a few of Ismayil’s friends, during probe, revealed that Ismayil had not received the quotation amount offered by a man from Mukkom. Following this, police collected details of all unnatural deaths reported in Mukkom and nearby areas.Residents raised suspicion over Jayavalli’s suicide during probe. The suspicion increased further when Birju and his family relocated to Neelagiri. Soon, police arrested Birju, who confessed to the crime.