In Bengal, neighbour kidnaps minor boy for ransom, kills him

A 12-365 days-veteran boy was once kidnapped and hacked to demise by his neighbour in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Friday, the police acknowledged on Sunday afternoon.

The incident came about at Uttarpara village in Baruipur.

Munirul Sheikh, the accused, allegedly lured Tushar Chakraborty, a category 6 scholar, saying he would acquire the boy a parrot from the bushes shut to his dwelling. For the reason that boy knew Sheikh, he went out with him with out telling his parents. He was once by no formulation seen once more.

On Saturday, Tushar’s father bought a name from an unknown cell phone and the caller demanded Rs 5 lakh as ransom for releasing the boy.

“After the boy went missing his father had lodged a grievance. We began monitoring the quantity and it led to Munirul’s arrest. He confessed that he killed the boy after kidnapping him and often known as his father the subsequent day,” acknowledged Rashid Munir Khan, superintendent of police, Baruipur.

Police realized that Sheikh had taken a mortgage of Rs 50,000 from any particular person and had no smartly-behaved earnings to pay it off.

“After we requested him why he killed the boy, Munirul acknowledged he obtained petrified. The physique was once realized shut to Munirul’s dwelling,” acknowledged the SP.

Sheikh was once produced prior to the native court docket docket on Sunday afternoon and remanded to police custody.