chennai the police on friday arrested five persons including a previous offender for murdering a realestate broker in sastri nagar on wednesday dispute over money is said to be the cause for the killings udhayakumar 35 of ellaiamman koil street in sastri nagar who was in the real estate business was friends with neighbourhood rowdies whom he would use to sort out petty issues one of them was senthil 32 a smalltime offender the police said udhayakumar had a drinking session with them in a tasmac bar on tuesday and on their way back home they picked up a quarrel over disbursement of money earned from a land dealfollowing this senthil and the others strangled him they dragged the body and dumped it amidst the bushes the body was recovered on wednesday morning police sent the body to government hospital in royapettah for postmortem and initially registered a case under section 174 suspicious death of crpcwhen the doctors declared that udhayakumar might have been strangled and hit against a rocky surface the sastri nagar police registered the case under section 302 the police said senthil and his friends were initially cooperative and were even trying to give the police possible leads but when udhayakumars brothers selvam and chandran told them about the scuffle that had taken place between udhayakumar and senthil during which the broker hit senthil the needle of suspicion turned to the rowdies especially when senthil and his friends suddenly disappeared after giving company to the investigating officialsapart from senthil the others arrested were ramesh 33 balaraman 30 mahimaidoss 32 and sridhar 33 they will be remanded in judicial custody on saturday after being produced before a magistrate court