Missing for 2 days,DPS boy found dead

Anwar was a patient of epilepsy earlier but since he had not had any convulsions for the past six months or so,his parents did not think twice when he went out.

It was different this time — he did not return.

Two days on,the police on Friday morning found the Class VII student’s body from a drain the locality.

The teenager attended evening classes at the DPS-Mathura Road,organised for students from the economically weaker section. Anwar’s two elder sisters also study in the same school.

The police have ruled out murder following preliminary investigations,and said the boy might have succumbed to an epileptic fit.

For Anwar’s father Raza,an auto-rickshaw driver,meanwhile,a dream has died. He and his wife saw a better future for the family through the eyes of the teenager,and their daughters,he said. “He wanted to become an engineer,” Raza said on Friday evening.

“I don’t know what happened to him — he used to get epileptic fits but he was all right for sometime so we gradually began sending him out alone.”

The family stays at a slum colony in Nizamuddin.

Nizamuddin police,meanwhile,has registered a case of unnatural death under Section 174 of the Indian Penal Code. “We are waiting for reports and are investigating the matter,” a senior police officer from the police station said.

The officer said Anwar’s anxious parents had lodged a missing complaint late Wednesday evening.

This morning,around 11,the police received a call from a local washerman about a body inside the drain in the locality. It was Anwar’s,the police found.

The officer said the teenager’s parents had told the police while registering the case that he used to get fits and had been sick earlier but they assumed he was alright since the convulsions were gone for the past six months.

“We suspect he suffered a fit and remained unattended as there are no injury marks on the body,” the officer said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Shalini Singh said no injury has been found on the body,and that the police do not suspect any foul play.

Anwar’s father,meanwhile,is left with his drawing book as memory. “He loved to draw,and his last painting was of a shedding tree,” the father said.