The accused boys are aged between 15 and 16 years and study in Class 10.
Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shlok Kumar said. "The boy was picked up by the teenagers from his school on July 9 and then taken to Aligarh where they choked him to death using a handkerchief. They then dumped his body in a river which was recovered later."
An FIR was first lodged under IPC section 363 (missing) on the basis of a complaint by the child's father, who lives in Shekhupur village under Chhatari police station limits.
"After the probe and findings, the accused have been booked under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) also," the police said.
The SSP said one of the teenagers had mistakenly lost Rs 40,000 while carrying out a financial transaction and was worried about it. He later narrated his ordeal to his friends after which they all decided to kidnap a child from the school for ransom to make up for his loss.
"On July 9, the victim was among the first few students to reach the school. The accused had not specifically planned to kidnap him but he was picked up since he reached the school early and there were not many people at the time," the SSP said.
"The teenager, who also studied in the same school, saw the boy playing outside his class and then took him to the boundary of the school where his other associates, who studied in a different school, were already present," he said.
The two accused took the boy on a motorcycle to Aligarh while the other reached there by bus. They had taken the boy to Aligarh because one of the accused had a house there and the boy was kept hostage there.
However, later the teenagers panicked thinking what they would do if their plan does not succeed and thought they might land in trouble.
The SSP added that they then decided to kill the boy and dumped his body in a river. They threw his handkerchief in bushes in an isolated area and returned to Bulandshahr.
The next day the child's body was found from the river in Aligarh and he was identified as the boy missing from Bulandshahr, he said.
Six teams were formed which analysed over 100 CCTV footages and questioned more than 200 people in connection with the case.
The accused were presented before a juvenile justice board for further legal action in the case.
The complainants held their landlord responsible for the missing of their daughter.
They claimed that their daughter has gone missing for the last 20 days. Acting on a complaint filed by the victim’s parents, police registered a case and raided the house of their landlord with the help of Childline officials. However, the landlord’s house was found locked.
It is learnt that the victim had been residing at the rented house with her father since 2018. Police meanwhile launched a manhunt for the landlord so that they can trace the whereabouts of the girl.
The victim’s father Santosh Pradhan said “Our landlord has no children. That’s why he used to take my daughter with him and keep her with him whenever I go for work. I did not realize his master plan behind being so kind to me and my daughter. Before I could realise, it’s too late.”
Victim’s mother Mandodari Pradhan said, “My husband was living on rent there. The landlord developed a strong rapport with my husband that the latter could not understand the former’s intention. When I came to meet my daughter, I found her missing. The landlord had locked her house and taken my daughter to some other place.”
Padhi's son alleged that the ex-MLA has been missing since May 12.
According to the missing report lodged by Sangeet Padhi, his father had left home at 8 am on May 11 and didn’t return. He had gone to his house at Unit 6 in Bhubaneswar and from there he has gone incommunicado, he claimed.
“We suspect he has been kidnapped as he was upset for the last few days over frequent calls he had been receiving. When he left home, he took his mobile phone but it is now answering switched off. We have lodged a missing report at the Capital police station,” said Sangeet over phone.
More details are awaited.
An official at the Badagada police station said the private tutor, identified as Gopalkrushna Badatia, has been arrested and booked under IPC Sections pertaining to sexual assault and kidnap, along with the POCSO Act on Thursday.
On Sunday, Badatia who used to give tuitions to the two girls, who are sisters, abducted them from their residence in Badagada by taking advantages of their family members’ absence at home.
Because of the involvement of two minor girls, the police took the matter seriously and launched an all out investigation to trace them.
During the course of the investigation, the police learnt that Badatia along with the two sisters was staying in a rented accommodation in Ainthapali area in Sambalpur district. The local police raided the place, rescued the girls and detained Gopal. A team from Badgada police station brought them back on Wednesday.
Upon reaching at the Badagada police station, the girls’ statements were recorded under 161 of CrPC and subsequently, under 164 of CrPC in the court. Thereafter, they were handed over to their family through the Child Welfare Committee. Badatia was subsequently put under arrest and booked under the relevant charges for the crime.
As per reports, the abductee Patitababan Prusty was staying with his family at Nuagaon Bijayvihar area in rented accommodation and returned home every day around 11:30 pm.
Last night, Prusty sent ‘SOS’ via a voice message to his wife at 10PM. After a complaint was lodged in this connection, Dhauli police initiated an investigation to trace the delivery boy who is still missing.
So far, a pair of slippers, bag and knife have been recovered from the spot he allegedly went missing.
As per the complaint, a youth of the village kidnapped the woman and handed her over to four persons in Jajpur Town. The four youths held the woman captive at different places and raped her for days. Later, she managed to escape from their clutches and reached her house.
After she narrated the ordeal in front of her family members, a complaint was lodged at Binjharpur Police Station.
"I want the culprits to be strongly punished so that my daughter gets justice," said the survivor's mother.
Jajpur SDPO, Prasant Malla said, "The girl's family has lodged a kidnapping and rape complaint. A case has been registered in this regard. The woman has been sent to hospital for medical examination and her statement recorded."
The matter came to light after the youth managed to escape four days after being kidnapped and narrated his ordeal in front of his family members, who later lodged a police complaint in this connection on Sunday.
Sources said Ajay Sahu, son of Pradeep Sahu, of Gudiapalli village went missing on March 14, following which his family members had filed a complaint at the Kabisuryanagar police station. However, Ajay returned to his house on Sunday and alleged that he was kidnapped by some miscreants and tortured physically during captivity. The boy also has several injury marks on his body.
Later, Ajay’s family members lodged a complaint at Kabisuryanagar police station. Ajay further alleged that the kidnap might be a fallout of business rivalry between his father and the miscreants.
Meanwhile, police officials were not available to comment on the matter.
As per a complaint lodged by the family, the girl left for school on February 1 but did not return. They alleged that a youth of Birikote village kidnapped the girl, a student of Gundima Model School. Later, a case was registered with the Adaba police based on the complaint.
Meanwhile, the school authorities said the girl has remained absent since February 2 and they are unaware of the reason behind it.
“She comes from Katama via bus. She mostly remains irregular. We don't have any idea of the reason for her absence,” said assistant teacher K Jugal Kishore.
Police said investigation into the incident is on full swing.
“Her father lodged a police complaint after he failed to trace his daughter. We registered a case on the basis of the complaint and have started investigation,” said Adaba police station IIC Mukesh Lakra.
As per sources, nine miscreants had abducted the minor girl, daughter of a Telecommunication Division Manager on December 18, 2002 while she was returning from school in Koraput.
Later on December 19, 2002, they had called the girl’s father and demanded Rs 20 lakh ransom for release of the child. An FIR was registered in this regard and police launched a manhunt.
Out of the nine accused, one has died, while three others were acquitted by the court.
Sources said when Janmejaya along with his two associates was attempting to kidnap a youth from Badagada area in a Bolero, two youths of Laxmisagar area tried to intercept them. However, the miscreants attacked the two youths with sharp weapons following which they sustained injuries.
On receiving information, police intercepted the vehicle near Palasuni and arrested the three accused. When Janmejaya tried to flee from the spot towards the Cuttack By-pass road, the cops chased and opened fire at him.
Injured Janmejaya was later admitted to the Capital Hospital. Police seized a country-made gun and live bullets from the accused. Several criminal cases, including kidnapping and attempt to murder, have been lodged against him at various police stations, sources said.
Earlier, dacoits Hari and Lipu were injured during a police encounter in the city on Tuesday last.
As per reports, Mahant was kidnapped from his house, taken to the forest 35 kilometres away and murdered. Later, he is suspected to have been buried by the miscreants.
Betnoti SDPO informed that he was abducted and murdered in a loot bid. Two persons have been arrested in this connection.
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The accused, who were in a car, abducted engineering student Anuj Jha from Jagamara area in Khandagiri yesterday. However, they were nabbed by a team of the Commissionerate Police near Phulnakhara while coming towards the city late last night.
In his complaint at the Khandagiri police station, Anuj's elder brother stated that a ransom of Rs 10 lakh was demanded by the miscreants to release Anuj.
The accused have been identified as Dev Arpit Mishra, Priya Ranjan Mallik, Jyoti Prakash Mohanty, Chandan Dakua, Girish Naidu and Abhimanyu Das.
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Family members of the woman have lodged a complaint alleging they have been kidnapped by the concerned IIC Ramesh Chandramukhi.
Earlier in June, the woman had approached Kendrapara SP alleging Chandramukhi had passed indecent remarks and assaulted her inside the police station on May 20 when she went to file a complaint on a family dispute.
Based on her complaint SP Dayanidhi Gochhayat had directed DSP SN Das to investigate into the case.
Police nabbed the kidnappers near Rathia area under Jaraka police limits in the district while they were escaping through NH 17 via Jajpur in a car.
The abductors had reportedly demanded a ransom of Rs 2 crore for releasing the Sorai village based businessman, Sribas Jena.
"I thank Jajpur and Puri police officials for saving my life," said Jena.
"By forming a team with the entire police fodce of Jajpur, we raided several places and rescued Jena and handed him over to Puri police," said Jajpur DSP Nagen Kumar Nayak.
Investigation into the case is on to ascertain the reason behind the abduction, said a police official.
According to reports, ultras have kidnapped two villagers from Mahupadar village under Mathili police station limits on suspicion of being ‘police informers’.
Sources said, nearly four to five persons (Maoists) had come to the village in police uniform and later abducted the duo. Further details in connection with the incident are awaited.
According to sources, Sambhu had been released by the accused abductors after taking a ransom of Rs 10 lakh.
However, Jharsuguda police continued its investigation and was able to arrest four persons. It recovered various deadly weapons, including a pistol, one Bolero and Rs 10 lakh from their possession.
Briefing media persons, SDPO Sethi said, "We were able to arrest four persons after conducting raids at various places. The total ransom money of Rs 10 lakh was recovered from them. The Bolero they had used for kidnapping and four motor cycles were also seized by us."
Ganesh Kundu, the son of Sabitri Kundu, BJP Zilla Parishad candidate of zone number 10 under Patkura block in the district, was allegedly kidnapped last night while returning home from a campaigning.
Ganesh’s father Siba lodged a complaint at Patkura police station alleging that his son has been kidnapped by rival groups.
"I tried to contact him on his mobile phone since 9 pm last night. Later, I found his bike along with the keys lying on Tikanpur road. Feeling suspicious, I informed the police about the incident,"Siba said.
"I do not want election, I want my son back,"he added.
After the incident local party activists staged a road blockade at the Tikanpur road. Police have seized the bike and mobile of Ganesh and a scientific team has reached the spot for further probe.
According to sources, the police arrested the three persons and rescued the actress near Baramunda over bridge area.
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Besides, the police also seized a Bolero vehicle form the possession of the three arrested persons.
Sources said simultaneous raids are being conducted at several places to trace Patodia, who was abducted while on his way towards Kirei, where he owns a spinning mill, from Jharsuguda.
All border crossing points of neighbouring Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh have been sealed, investigating officials said.
Police has seized Patodia’s vehicle from near a forest in the region. The young businessman’s driver is also suspected to have been kidnapped by the miscreants.
Sources said, a scientific team is assisting the investigating officials, including SP and SDPO of Sundergarh, in the probe.
Business rivalry cannot be ruled out behind the kidnap episode, an official said.
The ransom message sent from Gupta's mobile phone to his wife Sarika Gupta threatens he will be harmed if the money was not paid.
Gupta's car (UP83 AC-4100) has since been recovered from a mechanic's shop in Uttar Pradesh while the location of his mobile phone being used by the criminals has been traced to Delhi and Chandigarh.
A team of police officers fear the businessman might have been taken to Chandigarh.
The Special Task Force also feels that the kidnappers are continuously changing location to escape electronic surveillance.
Gupta is a partner in prominent food chain Sagar Ratna, located about 30 km from Firozabad where he lives. He was kidnapped on Sunday.
Sunil and an accomplice were arrested by police from inside a court room on Thursday and interrogated till they were produced before a magistrate here.
Later both were taken to a jail. Police will seek custody of the two on Saturday.
The probe team in the early hours of Friday took out Pulsar Sunil for two hours as part of the probe on the roads through which the actress was taken in the vehicle on that fateful night.
The arrest of the two came six days after the actress was abducted on February 17 while travelling from Thrissur to Kochi in a car.
Four others involved in the attempt to kidnap were arrested earlier.
The actress was dumped near the house of director-turned-actor Lal, who upon hearing her harrowing experience, informed the police.
Lal told the media he was now relieved as the accused had been caught.
"I was completely shaken ever since she came to my home on that night," said Lal.
Meanwhile, actor Dileep has got in touch with state police chief Loknath Behra to complain about the way his name was tossed about in the social media to malign him in the case.
A group of villagers, mostly from Panasput and Jodamba gram panchayats on Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border, today met Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Mitrabhanu Mohapatra and told him that the ultras had picked up six persons, including three women, from their villages.
They appealed to him to help trace the missing persons.
Suspecting their possible death in the October 24 encounter, police showed the villagers the bodies of the ultras which remained unclaimed so far. However, they could not recognise any of the bodies as those have started decomposing, a police official said.
The villagers also appealed to the SP to release Laikhan Golari, a youth from Khajuriguda village who was arrested after being found near the encounter site on Monday.
The villagers claimed that Golari was innocent with no record of any association with the Maoists and he might have gone to the site out of curiosity.
Meanwhile, state Home Secretary Asit Tripathy said of the 28 people killed in the encounter, 18 have been identified and the bodies were handed over to their family.
Revolutionary poet Varavara Rao, who accompanied the family members of the slain Maoists, said 18 of the 28 killed are rebels and the remaining 10 are from local villages. They might have come to the Maoist camp to cook and do odd jobs, he said.
District and Sessions Judge Malaya Ranjan Das convicted the man and ordered the jail term. The judge also slapped a fine of Rs 25000 on the man, failing which he would undergo an additional year in prison.
The man had kidnapped the class 12 girl on December 26, 2013 when she was on way to her college at Aska on her bicycle. She was rescued by police from Aska the next day.
The man was arrested following a complaint to the police by the girl's father.
The man has been in the jail since then and his bail pleas were rejected by the district and sessions and high court several times.
The arrested have been identified as Srikant Majhi, a teacher in Badipanga Primary School in the district and his two associates- Chagala Majhi and Nasri Majhi.
Police also rescued the lady teacher from Srikant's house at Dandadabadi, reports said.
According to sources, the trio allegedly abducted the lady teacher of Dangeshiguda UP School while she was taking class in the school.
Later, a complaint was filed at Tumudibandha police station in this connection.
Meanwhile, further investigation into the incident is on, police said.
As per reports, as many as 8-10 miscreants reached the block office in a four-wheeler vehicle in the afternoon today and forcefully abducted the BDO.
"The miscreants entered BDO's office and forced him into the vehicle and fled the spot," said the clerk at the block office.
Police soon launched a probe to track the kidnappers. Mishra was rescued by police in the evening.
"After receiving complaints about the abduction of the BDO, we had begun a probe and after around 2 hours, we tracked the kidnappers and rescued the BDO. The key accused in the abduction is the block vice chairman Raghunath Gurandi and we are investigating the involvement of other persons and trying to ascertain the motive behind the kidnapping," said K. Siva Subramani, Bolangir SP.
Soon after reports of Gurandi's involvement surfaced, he was suspended by the Congress party.
Earlier, another accused in the case, Balakrushna Barada of Jamujhola village was arrested and forwarded to court.
Reportedly, one Rabi Pradhan of Kalyanpur village went missing on June 14 following which his mother filed a missing complaint at the Sarankul police station. In the complaint, Rabi’s mother alleged that her son was kidnapped over political enmity.
While the cops were clueless till 20 days into the incident, the big breakthrough into the case came when the deceased’s brother caught Balakrushna and handed him over to police.
Balakrushna was arrested on July 4 where he made some startling revelations. As per his statements, he along with his associates had murdered Rabi and set his body on fire inside a forest in Tangi area of Khurda district
Based on the revelations made by Balakrushna, police later seized skeletons of Rabi from the forest and sent them for a DNA test.
It is pertinent to mention that all the accused were also arrested earlier on charges of carrying out an attack on the family of Rabi.