A five-year-old boy was found dead near a drain in Wazirabad area in North-East Delhi on Friday morning. The child was kidnapped on Thursday evening near his residence when he was out playing. A missing person’s diary was also filed at Usmanpur police station. It appears he was strangulated but the cause of death can be confirmed after a post-mortem.
According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Vansh Gupta. He was playing outside his residence on Thursday evening in Brahmpuri colony. The family members could not trace the child till late evening and raised an alarm. They started searching for the child and one of the locals said the child was last seen in H Block area. Vansh was found dead near Wazirabad Bridge on Friday morning. Strangulation marks were discovered on his neck and injury marks were seen on his hands and legs as well.
Family member of the deceased alleged that it was negligence on part of the police officers that their child was no more. “The police officials did no cooperate with us. We kept searching for him on our own. We went to the police station again after midnight but the officials sent only one person to search for him,” said Jai Mittal, uncle of the deceased.