MUMBAI: The city

on Monday arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly killing a 65-year-old man. The accused,

, during interrogation told police that the the deceased had killed his brother using black magic nine years ago and he wanted to avenge his brother's death. Sagliyar has been remanded in police custody.

The V P Road police near Grant Road had on April 18 found an unidentified body. The police activated all its sources to establish the identity of the deceased. Someone had hit hard on the deceased's head. Later, police learnt that the deceased was on Kishore who stayed in

area in VP Road. During investigation, police picked up Sagliyar who broke down during a sustained interrogation and admitted to have killed Kishore. He told police that he believed Kishore had nine years ago killed his brother using black magic. The accused further told police that he wanted to avenge the killing of his brother and on April he found Kishore loitering in the area. He hit him with wooden stick several times and fled. Kishore collapsed there and died.

On April 20, on the complaint of

, sub-inspector, VP road police station, a case was registered under section 302 (punishment for murder) of the IPC.