The state was rocked with two sensational incidents wherein a nine-year-old boy was kidnapped and murdered in Meerut while a petrol pump salesman was shot and trobbed of Rs 1.25 lakh in Saharanpur.
In Meerut, Daksh aka Vinnu of Kharkhaunda and a student of class IV was playing outside his uncle’s house last Thursday evening when he went missing. His father Manoj Kumar Goyal searched for his son and later reported the matter to the local police the same day. However, the police did not register a case and asked Goyal to search on his own.
The matter took an ugly turn when the police learnt that the body of a boy with his hands and legs tied was lying in the jungles at Dhamtala on Tuesday morning. They rushed to the spot and called the boy’s family who identified the body as that of missing Vinnu.
Circumstantial evidences suggested that the boy was kidnapped by unknown miscreants, strangled and dumped at the spot. The police now claimed to have registered a case of kidnapping and murder against unknown persons. The victim’s family claimed that they did not have any enmity with anyone.
Meanwhile in Saharanpur, Sufiyan (35) of Jeban area and Manoj (35) of Khurja in Bulundshahr, both working as cashiers with Chaudhary Indian Service petrol pump in Badagaon area of Saharanpur were going to Deoband late on Monday night. As they were crossing lavkari area, three motorcycle borne miscreants intercepted them and opened indiscriminate fire in which Sufiyan and Manoj were injured. The bikers later snatched a bag containing Rs 1.25 lakh and sped off. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital by passersby where Sufiyan was pronounced dead upon arrival while the condition of Manoj was stated to be critical. A case was registered in this regard and investigations are on.