A 12-year-old boy was found dead at a flour mill here.
The boy, who studies at a local Madrasa, had left his house yesterday morning and some locals found his body last evening at the mill and alerted the police, they said.
There were injury marks on the boy's head and it appears he was throttled to death as a rubber pipe was found around his neck, a police officer said.
His relatives have alleged that the boy was sodomised before being killed, the officer said.
The official, however, said as per the post-mortem report, sexual assault has been ruled out.
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