The Bhadrak police on Friday arrested three minor boys, including the prime accused, in the abduction and murder of a six-year-old boy at Nangamahala under the Purunua Bazaar police station in Bhadrak.
Sk Qadir, the prime accused in the sensational case, along with his two aides were sent to Juvenile Correction Home at Angul. After the arrest the three accused, they were forwarded to a local court, which ordered to send them to the Juvenile Correction Home.
On Thursday, the body of the boy Shaikh Shanwar Husain, a resident of Nangamahala, had been recovered from the house of Qadir in the same locality. The boy had been missing since Wednesday. The three accused minor boys had kidnapped him from near his house on Wednesday afternoon and demanded a Rs 6-lakh ransom to set him free.
The incident had come to light after Sk Iddu lodged a complaint about his missing son at the Puruna Bazaar police station.