Agra: A day after an 11-year-old boy’s body was found in a mustard field in Kasganj district, local police booked his
neighbour
for murder. A hunt is on to nab him.
Identified as Netrpal Singh, 38, of Nagla Kothi village under Sidhpura police jurisdiction, the accused was booked under IPC section 302 (murder). According to police, after the incident accused has gone into hiding.
On Thursday morning, Rajnesh Singh’s body was recovered 100 metres from his house in a mustard field. An autopsy report confirmed that he had been smothered to death. He was missing since Wednesday evening.
Speaking with TOI, Rajkumar Singh, station house officer of Sidhpura, said, “Preliminary probe suggests that Netrpal murdered Rajnesh after the boy verbally abused and engaged in a fist fight with the accused’s son, Neeru. The quarrel was over a petty issue that arose while they were playing.”
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Read MoreArvind Chauhan is an experienced journalist with a demonstrated history of working in the newspapers industry as well as for the social media wing as digital content creator. He has covered subjects like railways, aviation, defence, energy, health, real estate, minority affairs, women and child development, crime, customs, telecom, district court, district administration, roads and infrastructure, armed forces tribunal, and regional politics across Uttar Pradesh. He began his career in Lucknow, and has done reporting in West Uttar Pradesh. He has won the Times Scribe Award four times including for busting fake news, and extensive coverage on Covid orphans. He graduated with a journalism degree from Times School of Journalism and BA (Honors) in English from Lucknow University.
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