In a suspected case of kidnapping and murder, the body of a 4-year-old boy, missing for the last 22 days, was found lying in a sugarcane field in Gangoh police station area of Saharanpur.
The body was sent for autopsy and police started an investigation into the matter.
According to a police official, after getting information about a body from the villagers, they rushed to the sugarcane field in Khanpur Gurjar village under Gangoh police station of Saharanpur district on Tuesday evening and recovered the body.
The deceased was identified as 4-year-old Lakshya of Khanpur Gurjar village.
According to the relatives of the deceased, the child had disappeared while playing outside the house at around 4 pm on January 2. An FIR was lodged in the police station when the relatives could not find him. Saharanpur’s Senior Superintendent of Police Vipin Tada said that the body looked a few days old, and the exact cause of death was yet to be ascertained. He said the police were probing the entire matter.
Meanwhile, the body of a Class 12 girl, missing for the last fortnight, was recovered in Shahjahanpur on Tuesday evening.
Someone killed the victim, stuffed her body in a gunny bag and threw it in a pond to conceal the crime. The family members accused the local police of negligence which led to the death of the victim.
Reports said that Archana of Shiv Nagar village of Sidhauli area disappeared 15-days back. Her father, Sukhlal, and family members launched a search for her and when their attempts failed they contacted the local police and senior officers but no one listened to his pleas to help him trace out his daughter.
His son had also died in a similar way seven years back.
On Tuesday evening, someone saw a gunny back lying in the pond and informed the police about it. The cops rushed to the spot and found the body of a girl inside the bag. The deceased was later identified as missing Archana.
The cops sent the body for autopsy and were making further investigations. They claimed that the girl appeared to have eloped with someone who later killed her and escaped.
Meanwhile, in a shocking incident reported from Gorakhpur district, an 18-year-old youth, who worked as a milk distributor, was allegedly beaten to death by a group of miscreants on Tuesday.
The incident took place at Nizampur in Tiwaripur police station area. The victim, identified as Vikas Yadav, was returning home after distributing milk to customers when some miscreants surrounded him and attacked him with rods and sticks, leading to his death.
The victim's uncle, Parmeshwar Yadav, who arrived at the scene, immediately informed the police and rushed Vikas to hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
After this, Senior Superintendent of Police Dr Gaurav Grover and SP (City) Krishna Kumar Bishnoi reached the spot and took the body into custody and started an investigation into the matter.
Family members of the deceased victim have denied any old enmity, said Bishnoi. The victim was a Class 9 student but had left studies a year back and used to distribute milk with his father, Ishwar Yadav. He was returning from a customer's house when he was attacked and killed.