Missing boy’s body found with throat slit in Unnao

Kanpur: A nine-year-old boy, who had gone missing while playing from his house in Bihar area of Unnao on Saturday evening, was found murdered in the vicinity on Monday morning, police said. The boy’s body, with his slit throat, was found at an under-construction site.
The boy, Arun along with his mother Bisuna ,had come to his maternal grandparents' place in Dubaai village to celebrate Rakshabandhan on August 3.
The boy had left his home to play with other children in the vicinity in the evening hours on Sunday but did not return home.
His mother and other family members noticed him missing and launched a search in the neighbourhood, but in vain. The boy’s body was spotted in an under-construction site close to his maternal grandparents home by locals on Monday morning.
Subsequently, police were informed. “At the first look, there didn’t seem to be any injuries on the body. But a closer look showed that the boy’s throat had been slit,” said police.
The police have not ruled out the possibility that the boy was killed elsewhere else and his body dumped near his home.
The officer said that the boy’s clothes were found to be intact, suggesting he wasn’t sexually assaulted. But the police will await the autopsy report before concluding that.
SP Unnao Rohan P Kanay said multiple teams had been formed to solve the murder. “Investigators are speaking to the boy’s parents and other relatives to know if they were involved in any quarrel or enmity in the recent past that may have led to the killing,” he added.