Suspense surrounding the kidnapping and killing of an 11-year-old boy Sudhanshu ended on a tragic note when police recovered his body from the bushes close to GT road in Hazaribagh district under Gorhar police station area on Saturday afternoon.
The dilapidated/ disintegrated / decomposed body of Sudhanshu was recovered; he was kidnapped on November 26 and later killed by the four youths on 27 November, police said adding “his body was identified by his clothes”. Sudhanshu’s school bag (with books) was recovered from the bushes close to Chiraiyatand Bridge at Dumri (Giridih) during their search operation on Friday.
With the sole intention of making up huge money, four youths kidnapped the school boy for ransom and murdered him to escape being identified on November 27; later the accused were nabbed by the police on 4 December and ransom amount of Rs 5 lakhs was recovered from their possession. Police also seized three cell phones and a Swift Dezire car which they had used to kidnap the boy.
Notably, Sudhanshu who was killed was the nephew of a police official residing with him. However, one of the kidnappers, Vivek Singh, is the son of a police constable Meena Singh and the SUV which was hired and used in kidnapping, belongs to a Sub-Inspector. Sudhanshu, a class 6 student of St Xavier’s School Bokaro, was kidnapped when he was on his way to home after his tuition classes. He lived in Sector 4C/3036 with his uncle Maniji Singh, working as assistant to the DIG of Koylanchal, Bokaro.
Vivek Singh (20) is a son of a police constable Meena Singh, Satish Mishra (21) resident of Sector 3/C – 112, Sanjiv Kumar (20) Sector 3/D – 765 and Sanjay Kumar (21) a resident of Dhobi Mohalla sector-1, Bokaro, hired a SUV Swift Dezire (JH 09 0511) and abducted Sudhanshu. They first driven to Chhapra (Bihar) in the native place of Vivek, stayed one night and planned to hide the boy at Chhapra but failed. later they decided to come back to Bokaro.
“On the way of their returning they strangled the boy and threw the body into bushed on the GT Road under Gorhar police station. After killing Sudhanshu goons made a ransom call for Rs 20 lakhs to his father Amlesh Kumar Singh and told to free the boy on 1 December. The kidnappers threatened to kill the boy if they informed the police. Singh paid them Rs 5 lakhs rupees”, kidnappers told to the police during their interrogations. Keeping the mobile phones of the kidnappers on surveillance police arrested them from their homes at Bokaro on 4 December now all four are on remand of Bokaro police.