In a sensational incident, the minor son of a businessman in Raipura area of Chitrakoot was kidnapped and murdered.
The kidnappers had demanded Rs 50 lakh for the release of the boy. After not getting the money, they killed the businessman’s son.
Police recovered the body of the kidnapped child and launched a hunt for the killers.
Reports said that Rajdhar Kotarya, living in Kasba Colony under Raipura police station, brings gutkha from Kanpur and supplies it in Chitrakoot district. The businessman claimed that his 16-year-old son, Sudhanshu, went to attend classes in his school in the village last Saturday and went missing. Kotarya claimed to have registered the report of the disappearance of his son with the local police.
On Monday morning, Kotarya received a call from an unknown number asking him to arrange Rs 50 lakh if he wanted his son’s safety. The caller claimed that Sudhanshu was in their custody. At first Kotarya did not believe it, but when the kidnappers made him talk to his son, he realised that his son had been kidnapped.
The kidnappers again called Kotarya in the afternoon and asked him to deliver the money at Bedi Pulia within half an hour. The businessman informed his wife, Manju, about the kidnapping of their son and she informed the police about the kidnapping of their son.
The police immediately swung into action and after tracing the location of the mobile number from which the ransom call was made, they launched a hunt but were shocked to recover the body of Sudhanshu in the forest adjacent to Gadhiwa in Devangana valley in Karvi Kotwali area on Monday night. The kidnapper had killed the victim and fled.
Superintendent of Police Arun Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police Chakrapani Tripathi, Circle Officer Rajapur Nishtha Upadhyay, Circle Officer (City) Harsh Pandey reached the spot. The SP said that many suspects had been detained and were being interrogated and the culprits would be arrested soon.
The body of the victim was sent for autopsy.
Meanwhile, three minor sisters were killed after their mother, in a bid to commit mass suicide, jumped into the river Yamuna, allegedly over family discord in Jamunapaar area of Mathura district, police said on Tuesday.
According to reports, Poonam along with her daughters Anshika (8), Vanshika (6) and Charu (3) jumped into the river Yamuna near Hansganj Ghat late on Monday evening after a rift with her husband.
The local residents pulled Poonam and her daughters out from the river and took them to the district hospital, where the doctors pronounced Anshika, Vanshika and Charu dead.
“The woman is being treated at the district hospital,” police said.
Superintendent of Police (City) Arvind Kumar said that Poonam’s parents and husband Hariom had been called. “If needed, legal action will be taken. No police complaint has been registered so far,” he said.
