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Kidnapped boy recovered in pieces
LACK OF killer instinct in police investigating the case led to the gruesome murder of thirteen-and-half-year-old Ankit who was kidnapped from Rae Bareli Road in Mohanlalganj on Friday.
LACK OF killer instinct in police investigating the case led to the gruesome murder of thirteen-and-half-year-old Ankit who was kidnapped from Rae Bareli Road in Mohanlalganj on Friday.
The boy’s mutilated body was recovered early on Tuesday morning after three of the accused, including a Lucknow University student involved in the kidnapping, were arrested. The cops reportedly had caught Ankit’s classmate Vishal alias Chhotu and Himanshu too late in the day while two others were yet to be traced. The competence of police officials investigating the case could be gauged from the fact that they could not trace Vishal, about whom the cops were informed on very first day of the incident. The cops did interrogate Ankit’s senior Vishal but they could not care so much as to inquire from the school if there was any other boy with same name studying there. Vishal alias Chhotu turned out to be the Ankit’s classmate.
Cops were kept waiting for the ransom calls though they were tipped-off about involvement of Gaurav Singh, a BA-II student of LU and resident of 2/71, Rajni Khand, Aashiana. The cops picked up Gaurav late on Monday night despite the latter’s attempt to mislead them.
Gaurav confessed his involvement in Ankit’s kidnapping. He revealed names of his associates as Vikas Mishra and Satyendra Singh of Chinhat, Vikas Gupta and Bharat Gupta of Aashiana and Himanshu, besides Ankit’s classmate Vishal alias Chhotu of Ruchi Khand, Aashiana.
It was then the police team swung into action and conducted raids to nab the youths. But, they could trace only Vikas Mishra and Satyendra. The duo later revealed that they had killed Ankit on Friday night after the latter’s father refused to pay the ransom money.
The boys later took the cops to Dewa Road where they dumped the body. The cops reached the place early in the morning. It was a gory scene with body parts of Ankit scattered all around. The boy had been first strangled and later butchered into pieces.
