Kidnapped Nalanda boy found murdered

PATNA: The body of a kidnapped 5-year-old boy was recovered from the outskirts of village Jalalpur under Karaiparshurai police station area in Nalanda district. The child, identified as Dilkhush Kumar, was kidnapped while playing outside his residence in the same village on Monday evening.
Irate villagers attacked the policemen when they reached there and snatched a bolt action and another INSAS rifles from them.Those rifles were later recovered.
Nalanda SP Nilesh Kumar said old enmity between two families over land dispute was the reason behind the child’s murder.
“Dilkhush’s great-grandfather had been to jail for allegedly killing a person from the rival family. The two families have a land dispute for the last several years,” the SP said.
Nilesh said raids were going on since Monday night to recover the child soon after the boy’s family informed the police about the kidnapping with intention to kill him. “Police suspect he was murdered within an hour of being picked up from near his residence,” he said.
The SP said additional police force has been deployed in the village and raids were being carried out to nab those involved in the child’s murder.
“Some antisocial elements provoked the villagers, which led to their scuffle with the police team. One loaded magazine of a police rifle has been missing. We are trying to recover it,” he said.
Karaiparshurai police station SHO Awadesh Kumar said both the snatched rifles were recovered when situation normalized in the village.
“Prima facie it seems that the child was throttled to death. A deep hole was visible in one of his temples. Probably, he was stabbed in his head with a sharp-edged weapon,” he said.
The SHO said Dilkhush’s father Shishupal Mistry had reached the police station to inform about the kidnapping. “He has named Bina Thakur, Chotu Thakur, Virendra Thakur, Satyendra Thakur and Sarju Thakur as accused in the FIR lodged in connection with his son’s kidnapping,” he said.
He said all the accused and their close relatives had fled from the village and were evading arrest. “The body has been handed over to family after postmortem,” the SHO added.