AHMEDABAD: It was a message on the alleged killer's Facebook profile that helped cops solve the Priyanka Ramanuj murder mystery. 

The storyline is more like a Bollywood film. Priyanka's fiance, Mahendra Sadhu, was forced to get engaged with her by his family. Priyanka had already faced a broken engagement prior to this. 

Mahendra had a chance encounter with an old flame at a garba venue during the Navratri festival. This was enough to get him planning Priyanka's murder. Mahendra wanted his old girl friend back but could not reject Priyanka without facing strong opposition from his own family. 

Priyanka, an MBA student, went missing on October 21 and her body was fished out of a sewage canal near Gota a couple of days later. According to cops, the body was decomposed and they could not find any external marks of injury. 

The cops got suspicious after learning from one of Mahendra's friends that he was romantically linked with another girl. The first breakthrough was literally posted on a social networking website. Cops read messages of Mahendra's lover. 

"Further investigations revealed that Mahendra had a romantic relationship with this girl in the past. The messages on his profile revealed that the romance had been rekindled. We then put Mahendra under the scanner," said Sandeep Singh, superintendent of police, Ahmedabad rural. 

Officials said that after killing Priyanka on October 21, Mahendra had got one of his friends to call up the other girl. Mahendra had told her not to contact him until the matter cools down. "We have found the girl's message of anguish from Mahendra's profile. She had blamed him for cutting off all contacts with her," said police investigators.