BHOPAL: A 19-year-old tutor has been arrested after an eight-year-old boy who took tuition from him was found murdered on the outskirts of Bhopal, police said on Tuesday.

Bharat’s body was found in a sack by passers-by on Monday evening. According to police, he had been strangled to death.

Police arrested tutor Bittu, 19, on suspicion of murdering the minor, Bhopal Deputy Inspector General of Police Santosh Singh told IANS.

When Bharat, a student of Christ Memorial School, did not return home after school on Monday, his six-year-old sister Kanak, who studies in the same school, told her parents that her brother was seen with “Bittu uncle”.

The murdered boy’s mother told reporters that Bittu had threatened to harm her son if she did not “go to him” (Bittu). In a CCTV footage, a man resembling Bittu is seen carrying a sack on his motorcycle, police said.

UJJAIN MISHAP

Four labourers died and at least 40 others were injured on Tuesday when the tyre of a pick-up van they were travelling in burst and the vehicle overturned near Ujjain, police said.

The injured have been rushed to hospitals in Badnagar and Ujjain city.

Badnagar Poli Station in-charge Vivek Kanodia told IANS: “A contractor’s pick-up van was ferrying labourers from Bilgaon in the morning when the tyre burst and the vehicle fell into a roadside ditch.” Three labourers died on the spot, while another succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

“More than 40 labourers were injured in the accident. The severely injured labourers have been referred to a Ujjain hospital,” Kanodia said.

CAR CRASH

A female student of Hyderabad Central University was killed and two techies were injured in a car crash on Outer Ring Road on the city outskirts early on Tuesday, police said.

Ananya Goel, 22, hailing from Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli, was on long drive with her two friends after celebrating birthday of one of them when the accident occurred.

Indo-Asian News Service