UP: Tutor, aide abduct, kill boy for Rs 7 lakh ransom in Jaunpur

VARANASI: A seven-year-old boy of Shahganj was kidnapped and murdered by two ITI students in Jaunpur district on Saturday. Both accused, one of whom gave tuitions to the boy, were arrested.
The deceased Abhishek was a student of Upper KG. The two accused were identified as the tutor, Shivam Kumar Srivastava, and his accomplice Akash, said Jaunpur SP Rajkaran Nayyar.
Nayyar said duo had already killed the boy by strangulating him with a muffler, before texting Abhishek’s father Deepchand Yadav with a Rs 7 lakh ransom demand.
At 10 am on Saturday, Abhishek had left home on Ayodhya Road under Shahganj police station for his tutor’s (Shivam’s) place in neighbouring Yadav colony and was scheduled to return by noon. However, when he did not return even after 2 pm, his father Deepchand, who runs a pathology centre in Bibiganj area, reached the tutor’s place.
There, he was informed that Abhishek did not turn up for tuition. Around 3pm, Deepchand received a text message on his mobile phone from an unknown number which said Abhishek had been kidnapped and he would be released only after Rs 7 lakh is paid to the kidnapper. Deepchand reached Shahganj police station and filed a complaint.
SP Nayyar said a case of kidnapping for ransom was lodged and six teams were formed to rescue the boy.