Boy was allegedly kidnapped from his residence…
New Delhi: On Tuesday, the disfigured body of a three-year-old boy who went missing from east Delhi was recovered from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, the police said.
The police said, the boy was allegedly kidnapped from his residence in Preet Vihar Delhi on November 30 and later killed by one of his neighbours.
The victim's headless torso was recovered from a sugarcane field in Meerut. The police suspect that the accused, age 16, who has been arrested, killed the boy as part of a human sacrifice ritual.
"A police team was sent to the Jagatpuri residence and the accused was taken into custody. On sustained interrogation, the accused said that he left the child in a sugarcane field at Meerut.
Thereafter, a team was sent to Meerut where it came to notice that police have already discovered a body without head and limb," senior police officer Amrutha Guguloth said, as quoted by news agency PTI.
"The head was also found near the child’s body. On the basis of the belongings and clothes, the body was identified to be that of the missing child from Preet Vihar area. The accused has been arrested and further investigation in the case is going on," she added.
As the news of the child's gruesome murder broke, his family and other locals staged protests and blocked the roads in the Preet Vihar area. The angry protestors even threw stones at the police trying to disperse the crowd.
After interrogating the accused, a Delhi Police team reached Meerut's Nangli-Isa village in Incholi where the victim's headless torso was found. Hands were also missing while the head was lying far away from the body, said police.
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