15-year-old beaten to death by Modi Nagar neighbours

GHAZIABAD/MODI NAGAR: A 15-yearold boy was tied to a tree and tortured to death allegedly by six people from his neighbourhood at Kalcheena, Modi Nagar town, in Ghaziabad early on Monday. The suspects then threw the victim’s body outside his house and fled.

The boy, Zeeshan, was beaten for over two hours, police said, adding that a hunt has been launched for the suspects. They hinted that the incident may have occurred over the victim’s reported relationship with a girl from the same locality.

The victim’s family alleged that Zeeshan went out of the house to answernature’scallat12.30amwhen sixmen—saidtobedistantrelatives — captured him. CONT’D ON P6