In a bizarre incident in Bulandshahr, five minor boys watched a popular TV crime serial and went on to kidnap a seven-year-old boy for ransom and then murdered him.
The accused boys are aged between 15 and 16 years and study in Class 10.
Bulandshahr’s Senior Superintendent of Police Shlok Kumar said. "The boy was picked up by the teenagers from his school on July 9 and then taken to Aligarh where they choked him to death using a handkerchief. They then dumped his body in a river. The body was recovered later."