Noida: The schoolboy wanted for the murders of his mother and sister at their Noida Extension flat earlier this week was found in Varanasi, police said on Friday.
"He is fine. A police team is bringing him to Noida. They are on the way," Noida police chief Love Kumar told TOI on Friday evening. Police had been looking for the boy since Tuesday night, when the bodies of his mother (42) and sister (12) were found on a bed in their 4-bedroom apartment on the 14th floor of a newly built housing society.
It is suspected the murders were committed on the night of December 4. The boy was seen as the prime suspect because his bloodstained clothes, which he is believed to have changed out of, were found in another room and he was seen on CCTV footage leaving the apartment around 11.30 the same night. Footage had shown all three of them entering the house together three hours ago, around 8.30pm.
The boy's father, a businessman, was away in Gujarat on a work trip.
Love Kumar said the police team had not interviewed the boy yet and would do so only after they reach Noida. The boy had taken his mother's cellphone with him — his own had been taken away from him in September by the parents because of his addiction to mobile gaming — and the first breakthrough came from that.
The phone was active on the night of December 5 in Delhi's Chandni Chowk, a police source said. It was the same night police discovered the murders. Thereafter, he switched off the phone. A police officer said the boy was well aware the cellphone could be used to track him because of his extensive exposure to mobile games (he is said to have been particularly hooked to the games High School Gangster Escape and Gangster in High School, built around the themes of students, crime and violence).
But using a combination of surveillance and information, the boy's location was tracked. Police did not reveal the details but a source said a formal announcement was expected on Saturday morning. The victims' family members were reluctant to talk.
Aman Bansal, a neighbour, said the murders had led to anxiety among other residents of the society. "We had informed police when repeated knocks on the door went unanswered. It has now created an uncomfortable environment. I hope police find the real culprit," he said.
The murders are believed to have been committed with a pair of scissors and a cricket bat, both of which were found in the house, and are now in police custody.
"He is fine. A police team is bringing him to Noida. They are on the way," Noida police chief Love Kumar told TOI on Friday evening. Police had been looking for the boy since Tuesday night, when the bodies of his mother (42) and sister (12) were found on a bed in their 4-bedroom apartment on the 14th floor of a newly built housing society.
It is suspected the murders were committed on the night of December 4. The boy was seen as the prime suspect because his bloodstained clothes, which he is believed to have changed out of, were found in another room and he was seen on CCTV footage leaving the apartment around 11.30 the same night. Footage had shown all three of them entering the house together three hours ago, around 8.30pm.
The boy's father, a businessman, was away in Gujarat on a work trip.
Love Kumar said the police team had not interviewed the boy yet and would do so only after they reach Noida. The boy had taken his mother's cellphone with him — his own had been taken away from him in September by the parents because of his addiction to mobile gaming — and the first breakthrough came from that.
The phone was active on the night of December 5 in Delhi's Chandni Chowk, a police source said. It was the same night police discovered the murders. Thereafter, he switched off the phone. A police officer said the boy was well aware the cellphone could be used to track him because of his extensive exposure to mobile games (he is said to have been particularly hooked to the games High School Gangster Escape and Gangster in High School, built around the themes of students, crime and violence).
But using a combination of surveillance and information, the boy's location was tracked. Police did not reveal the details but a source said a formal announcement was expected on Saturday morning. The victims' family members were reluctant to talk.
Aman Bansal, a neighbour, said the murders had led to anxiety among other residents of the society. "We had informed police when repeated knocks on the door went unanswered. It has now created an uncomfortable environment. I hope police find the real culprit," he said.
The murders are believed to have been committed with a pair of scissors and a cricket bat, both of which were found in the house, and are now in police custody.
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