NAGPUR: A man, in his 20s, abducted a 15-year-old boy from
Nagpur’s Indiramata Nagar
on Thursday and took him to a nearby forest where he stoned him to death, before slitting the boy’s wrist with a surgical blade.
The man,
Suraj Sahu
, did it to exact revenge on the victim’s family, who had shifted his childhood friend, who he was in love with, to Varanasi where she got married. The victim was the girl’s cousin.
Sahu had demanded as ransom from the family of the victim, Raj Pandey, a photograph of his uncle after he was beheaded. Sahu claimed that Pandey’s uncle had raped his mother six years ago and had got Sahu injured in a road accident.
On Friday, police produced Sahu before a court which remanded him in custody till June 14. Pandey was killed even as family and friends kept on negotiating with Sahu with a false hope.
During negotiations, Pandey was heard howling in the recorded audio clip, pleading to his mother and others to get him released.
After failing to convince Sahu, Pandey’s family and friends rushed to seek police help but by then it was too late.
Police claimed that Sahu kept on negotiating while concealing the murder.
Police said Sahu also described to the boy’s family how he was torturing the teenager by gagging him and hanging him from a tree and leaving him gasping for breath.