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