VARANASI: Sensation prevailed in Paigambarpur village under the limits of Sarnath police station on Monday afternoon when body of a 9-year-old boy Vishal, who was missing since January 29, was found dumped behind a school building.
On Sunday a small letter containing a threat for killing Vishal in case of not paying Rs 50,000 as ransom within an hour was received by the family at their home. DIG Amit Pathak said that after getting the letter, Vishal's father Manjay Kumar went to Chaubeypur area, where the kidnapper had called him, while a police sub-inspector also followed him.
However, on finding no one for over two hours they returned, said Pathak mentioning that the police started further investigation in the case after sending the body for postmortem.
On January 29 evening Manjay, a labourer, went to Sarnath police station to give a complaint that his son was missing since afternoon. Taking note of teh complaint, police lodged a case under section 363 (kidnapping) of IPC, said Pathak. Footages of CCTV installed in the buildings of the area from where the boy went missing, were also checked.
However, the boy could not be found. On Monday afternoon some passersby noticed the body of a boy. He raised an alarm after which hundreds of locals gathered there while CO Cantt Abhimanyu Manglik also reached the spot. Later, the identity of body was ascertained.
On the basis of content of the letter and the outcome of their initial investigation, policemen suspected that the kidnapper is a local and also close to Manjay’s family. They claimed that the case would be worked out very soon.