A day after his abduction, the dead body of a youth was found on Monday from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, the hometown of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
In a similar incident a few days back, a youth was kidnapped and murdered in Kanpur.
Balram Gupta, a student of Class 5 and a resident of Pipraich area, was kidnapped and a ransom of Rs 1 crore demanded from his family. After the police were informed, the Special Task Force (STF) was also roped in to look for the child along with the Pipraich Police and the Crime Branch.
Since the incident, police forces of many stations have been deployed as a precautionary measure in the village.
The police on Monday recovered from a canal near the village the body of the boy, acting on information given by the accused. It was sent for post-mortem.
After the murder, four youths from the same village had demanded ransom. The police have arrested one of these accused who claimed they had murdered the kidnapped boy in a state of panic. At the same time, they had demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore from his father to allegedly mislead the police. The other three accused are still at large.
SP North Arvind Pandey said efforts are underway to nab the remaining accused.
The father of the victim has demanded strict action against the culprits.
Again slamming the BJP-led state government over law and order, Samajawadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav described the news of the murder of the kidnapped child as "very painful and tragic".
"Despite the constant kidnappings and murders, the shameless silence and inaction of the BJP government is in question,” said the former chief minister in a tweet.
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