In a shocking case, a 6-year-old son of a doctor was kidnapped and later murdered in Deoria.

The victim, who was the only son of the doctor amongst three daughters, was kidnapped when he went to attend tuition and later his body was recovered from the toilet in the teacher's house on Thursday morning.

Taking action in the case, the police arrested the grandson of the teacher who gave tuition and were grilling him to extract the facts.

Reports said that Dr Gorakh Yadav, a resident of Harkhauli village of Lar area in Deoria, does private practice along with running a medical store at the crossroads. Sanskar Yadav, who was just six years old, was his only son amongst his three daughters.

Sanskar had gone to a teacher's house in the village on Wednesday evening to attend tuition class. After some time, when Sanskar did not return home, the family members became upset and started looking for him.

Meanwhile, Sanskar's sister reached the teacher's house to enquire about their brother. However, the teacher informed her that Sanskar had not come for tuition on Wednesday.

The news of Sanskar’s disappearance spread like a wild fire and several local residents launched a search for him. During search, they found a paper in the field on the south side of the village, on which it was written that Gorakh Yadav should arrange Rs 5 lakh otherwise his only son will not be set free. The alleged kidnapper asked the doctor to arrange money and warned that if this was not done they would kill the boy.

After recovery of the letter, the family members informed the local police about the kidnapping. Police registered a case on the complaint of Gorakh Yadav and started investigation.

During the investigation, the needle of suspicion pointed to the grandson of the teacher who gave tuition. When the police took him into custody and questioned him strictly, he spilled the whole truth. On his tips, the body of Sanskar was recovered from a toilet at the door of the teacher’s house.

Superintendent of Police Sankalp Sharma said that they were further grilling the accused to find out about others involved in the killing and also the motive behind killing the innocent boy.

In Jhansi also, a 10-year-old boy was murdered in Laharchura police station area. The child's body was recovered from a neighboring kutcha house.

Police said on Thursday that the body of Sumit, the 10-year-old son of Santram, a resident of Khandarka village under Laharchura police station, missing since Wednesday morning, was recovered late at night from a neighboring kutcha house.

Santram said that he went to the farm in the morning and after some time his wife also left for work. At that time Sumit was playing outside the house.

When both returned home in the evening, Sumit was found missing. On enquiring from other children, it was learnt that Sumit was not seen after morning.

The family members and the relatives launched a hunt and also informed Dial 112 and Laharchura police station about Sumit's disappearance. The police reached the spot as soon as the information was received but during the search, the body of Sumit's was found lying in a kutcha house. It appeared that someone took the boy to a deserted house and strangled him to death.

The police sent the body for autopsy and were making further investigations.

In another sensational killing, a headless and highly decomposed body of a woman was found in a drain in Meerut's Cantonment area on Thursday.

The body was spotted by the locals when it was being pulled by stray dogs and they immediately informed the police about it. The victim's body had no clothes.

Additional Superintendent of Police Chandrakant Meena said prima facie it appeared that someone deliberately tried to conceal the victim's identity. The police sent messages to nearby districts for any missing report.

Station House Officer of Lal Kurti, Atar Singh, said: "It is a blind case with no clues whatsoever. The body is highly decomposed and even identification of the correct age is difficult. The autopsy will ascertain the cause of death."