Police on Wednesday arrested a youth on the charges of abducting and killing a seven-year-old boy on January 12 after the kid’s mother turned down his love proposal in the Gosaninuagaon area of Ganjam district.
Sources said the minor boy Anshuman went missing after going by a scooter with a youth identified as Debasish Panda (30) of Jajpur. Following the incident, a missing complaint was lodged by the mother of the boy at the Gosaninuagaon police station. Based on the complaint, police launched an investigation and arrested the accused from Dunguripali in Subarnapur district after tracking his phone records.
During police interrogation, Panda revealed that he had stoned the boy to death in the Tara Tarini forest near Chhatrapur. “I came across the boy’s mother on Facebook and fell in love with her. However, when I approached her with a love proposal, she declined it,” said Panda.
“In order to take revenge, I took the kid with me on a pretext of dropping him at the DAV School in Gandhinagar at around 10.40 am. Later, I took him to the forest for on a plea of sightseeing near the Tara Tarini temple where I stoned him to death,” added Panda.
Gosaninuagaon PS IIC Kulamani Sethi said that the accused confessed to have committed the crime in front of a Magistrate, following which he was forwarded to court.