The body of an eight-year-old child has been recovered from a sugarcane field in Mudia town of Faizganj Behta police station area of Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh. There is a suspicion that the child may have been strangled to death after committing an unnatural act with him. Police gave information about this.
The father of the deceased teenager alleges that the police was negligent and did not make any effort to find the child. He says that when he received a call demanding ransom of Rs 5 lakh, the police registered a case but by then it was too late, as a result the body of the teenager was recovered from the sugarcane field 36 hours after the incident. However, the police are denying the issue of ransom.
Claim of demanding ransom of five lakhs
According to the police, Shariq, eight-year-old son of Zulfikar of Mudiya town of Faizganj Behta police station area of Badaun, had gone missing on Wednesday afternoon. When he did not reach home till evening, his family lodged a complaint with the police, on which the police took a missing complaint. Family members say that on Thursday, when Shariq’s father Zulfikar received a ransom call of Rs 5 lakh on his number, Zulfikar lodged a complaint with the police claiming to have recognized the voice.
The father alleges that the police registered a missing case after 24 hours and started searching for the child. A teenager who was calling on mobile has been taken into custody by the police through phone surveillance and on his information late on Thursday night, Shariq’s body was recovered in a sugarcane field in village Chani of Ugti police station area.
Police denied ransom
Senior Superintendent of Police OP Singh said that from the inspection of the incident site, it appears that the child was murdered by strangulation after committing an unnatural act and the accused is also a minor, whom the police have taken into custody and started questioning. Terming the issue of demanding ransom as baseless, the SSP said that the issue of demanding ransom was said to confuse, whereas there is no such thing as demanding ransom.
He told that the post-mortem of the child is being conducted today. Other culprits are also being searched who will also be arrested soon.