The Foreign Office confirmed the death of the British national in India.
An Indian-origin hotelier from Britain who went missing in India three weeks ago has been murdered in Punjab, the UK government on Saturday said.
Ranjit Singh Power, a 54-year-old businessman from Wolverhampton, was last seen at Amritsar airport on May 8.
His family in Britain had offered a reward of £25,000 to trace his whereabouts after he did not contact them for a week.
The Foreign Office confirmed the death of the British national in India.
Assistant Jalandhar Police commissioner Balwinder Singh Kahlon told BBC they have charged a man with murder and police divers are searching for a body.
A local journalist from Punjab said a man has been arrested and police are examining a car they believe to be connected to the case. Power was reportedly strangled.
Power's family in Britain had feared he may have been kidnapped after he uncharacteristically failed to stay in contact with them and did not catch his return flight from Amritsar on May 14.
Initially offering £10,000 for information leading to their father's return, his daughter Emma Power later said they had raised that to £25,000.
Power owned the four-star Ramada Park Hall Hotel in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands region of England, and was in the habit of ringing his family every day.
But this time, he last spoke to his partner, Angela Bir, on May 7 when he landed in India.
"Father would contact England two or three times a day if not more. We have not heard from him at all. He is very careful and has always been aware of his security," Emma said.
Power, who grew up in the West Midlands, had been placed on the West Midlands Police's Missing Persons list.
He had bought the Ramada Park Hall Hotel out of administration four years ago from its previous owners. He previously owned the Connaught Hotel in Wolverhampton before selling it in 2004.
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