LUCKNOW: In a ghastly incident, a three-year-old boy was sodomised and murdered and his body was found being devoured by stray dogs in the fields in Garhi locality under
Thakurganj police station on Saturday morning. The body was identified as that of
Rishabh, who had been missing from a wedding venue since Friday evening.
Rishabh had come to attend a marriage with his mother at his maternal grandmother’s house on Friday evening and was missing since 6.30pm. The family and relatives looked around for him and finally his mother Khushboo lodged a complaint with police at around 11.30pm.
The body was found when some local residents spotted some stray dogs devouring human flesh in a field owned by one
Pir Khan in Garhi. The field is located just next to the venue of the wedding where the boy had come with his mother. The locals and wedding guests shooed off the pack of dogs and informed police.
The body was identified to be of Rishabh who had been missing since Friday evening.
After getting the post-mortem report on Saturday evening, cops revealed that the child had died of asphyxiation caused by strangulation and also that he was sodomised before death. The viscera has been preserved for further examination.
Taking action on the written complaint of the boy’s mother, police lodged a case of murder and causing disappearance of the boy against her husband, sister-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law. All accused were absconding at the time of filing of the report.
ASP (west)
Vikas Tripathi said that the boy had been living with his mother and his father had filed a petition for divorce. He said that police are probing the allegations of the mother and are yet to ascertain the motive behind the murder.
