Missing minor boy’s body recovered in MP’s Bhopal

A 13-year-old boy, who had gone missing on Friday evening, was found strangled to death and his body stuffed inside a bed box in a building about 30 metres away from his house on Saturday at Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

The police have taken a prime suspect into custody, while a search is on for another suspect.

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As per the police, the deceased boy, Ali Qadri, son of Aftab, lived in the Srinagar Kankar locality. Ali had gone to his coaching class, but did not return even after his usual time of 7.30 pm.

The family searched for him but in vain. Consequently, they lodged a missing person complaint at the MIG police station. During the police investigations, Ali’s blood-stained jacket was recovered from the Shridevi Apartment near the family’s house.

CCTV footage showed Ali riding a cycle near the apartment, and then two young men were seen taking him with them towards the apartment.

On searching the building today, the police recovered Ali’s body stuffed inside a bed box in flat number 42 of the apartment. He had strangulation marks on his neck, besides other injury marks too.

According to MIG police station Inspector C B Singh, teams of forensics examined the spot, while the body was sent for post-mortem. He said further investigations are on in the matter.

Sources said that police have detained a prime suspect, whose name is said to be Rehan (21). A search is on for the second suspect.