Meerut (UP): Days after a video showing a youth being shot dead here surfaced on social media, police said they arrested the main accused after an encounter on Friday evening.

The purported video showed the assailants knocking the victim to the ground before firing multiple rounds at him.

According to police, the victim's body was recovered on Wednesday morning near a tubewell along a forest pathway in Meerut's Narhada village.

The deceased was identified as 25-year-old Adil alias Rehan, a resident of Radhna Wali Gali who worked as a clothes seller, police said.

Preliminary investigation revealed that Adil was called out of his home on Tuesday afternoon by two friends, Jul Qamar and Hamza. The accused took him to the forest, knocked him down and shot him dead with a pistol, they said.

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