Teenager held over Mumbai killing

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Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have arrested a teenage college student accused of kidnapping and killing a fellow student aged 17.

Mukim Khan's body was found on Tuesday morning after he had been missing for four days.

The incident comes 18 months after another teenager was killed after being held for ransom by his friends.

Psychologists have said some of the pressures of modern life are forcing young men to take to violence.

The recovery of Khan's body has sent shockwaves through the city, the BBC's Mumbai correspondent Zubair Ahmed reports. Today's teenager is exposed to a lot of negativity around him Psychologist Anjali Chharbria

The boy had been missing for the last four days and was last seen with two of his classmates on 13 February.

Police said his classmates used his mobile phone to call his parents and demanded a huge amount of money to secure the boy's release.

Another teenager, Adnan Patrawala, was murdered in 2007 after being kidnapped by his friends.

Psychologist Anjali Chharbria said exposure to an increasingly materialistic world is responsible for a rising crime rate amongst young people.

"Today's teenager is exposed to a lot of negativity around him. He is exposed to alcohol to violence and also there is a lot of pressure.

"So what happens is as a result of all this he sees more, he has become more materialistic, he wants more and he knows how to get it."

In the latest case, the victim and the two friends he was last seen with were in the same class of a local college.

The school's principal told the BBC they were among the brightest in their class.