Neighbour suspected in murder of 12-year-old boy last located in J&K

An officer said, “Soon after the boy went missing, we started tracing the duo and through CCTV footage, we managed to track them… we saw that he went with the boy into the bushes and walked out alone due to which we suspect that the boy was killed the same night.”

Police said that several teams tried tracing them through other technical evidence and they have already visited Hyderabad, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Pune and Satara. The investigators added that the suspect was last located in Jammu and Kashmir after he had called his mother on February 1 asking for a copy of his Aadhaar card.

“The suspect initially went to Pune after which he caught a train to Delhi and from there, he went to Samba by bus,” said an officer adding, “He got acquainted with a co-passenger in the train and he travelled with him to his house in Samba. He even used his phone to reach out to his mother in West Bengal and after staying there for some days, he escaped from there.” Meanwhile, police said that the postmortem of the minor was conducted on Wednesday afternoon.

“We got the report late. Doctors have reserved their opinion on the cause of death and whether the boy was sexually assaulted. His viscera shall be sent for further examination,” an officer added. To confirm the body was of the 12-year-old boy, police have also collected DNA samples of the mother for examination, an officer added.

The Wadala Truck Terminal police that had earlier registered a case of kidnapping, added sections of murder and destruction of evidence against the suspect on Tuesday.

Police also launched an inquiry against a sub-inspector for allegedly not detaining the suspect after he was brought to the police station on January 29 by locals and letting him escape. The suspect escaped when the PSI let him go to wash his face without any escort.