Boy Killed by Friend

Alleged Jilted lover kills woman's son

 The incident took place on November 28 when a 10-year-old boy went missing from his home in Sanjay Colony. On Thursday, nearly a month later they received a missing persons report, found a body which was “highly decomposed” and “partially burnt” near a pond in Maidan Garhi.

The boy’s parent immediately identified the body. “We were told that the boy went to a store to buy food but didn’t return. The boy’s parents were separated and there was a dispute over the child’s custody...All CCTVs in the area were scanned but we didn’t find anything,” said DCP (South) Atul Kumar Thakur.

The accused is identified as Bittu Singh who wanted to marry the boy’s mother. “When questioned, the mother then spoke about a friend named Singh who often gave gifts to her son,” said a senior police officer. Investigation revealed that Singh was inspired by a TV show, devised the plan to kidnap the child, killed him and allegedly tried to burn the body in order to destroy the evidence. “On November 28, he took the child in an auto on the pretext of buying him berries. They went to a forest where Singh strangled the child with a scarf. He then dumped the body in a pond,” said DCP Thakur.

The 28-year-old was arrested after he allegedly confessed his crime on Thursday when the body was recovered. “He tried to burn the body with fuel but he failed because it was wet. The accused then removed the clothes from the body, put it in a plastic bag and dumped it in the river,” said the police.