pune the kothrud police on thursday claimed to have solved the murder of poultry shop owner in shastrinagar in kothurd following the arrest of his 21yearold cousin the suspect ashraf bardra alam shaikh 21 currently residing at dhankawadi and hailing from west bengal was arrested for the murder of billal hasan 21 investigations have revealed that on april 8 shaikh allegedly slit hasans throat inside the bismilla chicken centre at shastrinagar in kothrud and stole rs 26000 in cash from the shop the police have recovered the cash from a poultry shop in dhankawadi where shaikh used to work a police team led by senior police inspector chandrakant ghodke of the kothrud police station made the arrest hasans body was found on the night of april 9 in the shop when one of his relatives came to the shop after not getting response from hasan to his calls throughout the day after murdering hasan the suspect had locked the shop from outside the kothrud police had detained several suspects for questioning during investigations we received a tipoff about shaikhs involvement in the murder we laid a trap and nabbed shaikh from dhankawadi area on wednesday night ghodke said during interrogation shaikh confessed to his involvement in the murder of hasan shaikh revealed that he killed his cousin for money ghodke said around a month back shaikh had been working at hasans shop he was aware that every sunday hasan made a good amount from sale ghodke said the suspect shaikh was produced before the court on thursday and remanded to police custody till april 18 ghodke said