Missing child’s body found in drain in Narela

NEW DELHI : The body of a threeyear-old male child, who was missing since Friday afternoon, was found in a drain in Gautam Colony in outer Delhi’s Narela on Saturday morning.

Police suspect that the child could have accidentally fell into the drain that was not covered. They said preliminary probe did not suggest any foul play.

A police officer said a case of death due to negligence has been registered and is being probed from other angles as well. Police had already registered a kidnapping case on Friday on the complaint of his parents. The child lived with his parents and sister in a rented home in Gautam Colony. His father works as a labourer, said police.

On Friday afternoon, the boy was playing outside his home with other kids while his family members were inside. Some minutes later, his mother went to bring him inside but found him missing. She initially thought that her neighbour would have taken her son to his home. But when she could not find him at her neighbours’ home, she alerted her husband, said police.

“The couple searched the child in the neighbourhood with neighbours. When they could not find him, the couple approached the local police and filed his missing complaint,” said a police officer, adding an FIR was registered and efforts were made to find the boy.

On Saturday morning, the family members and locals relaunched the search operation during which they broke a wall of the drain to bring down its water level. “The boy’s body was found trapped in the mud and waste materials in the drain. It was sent to a hospital where doctors declared him brought dead,” said the officer. Police were waiting for the child’s autopsy report to ascertain the exact cause of his death. FARIDABAD: The pilot of an Indian Airlines plane, that was hijacked to Pakistan in 1971, died in Faridabad on Saturday after a prolonged illness. He was 93, family sources said.

Captain MK Kachru, residing in a residential society in Sector 21C, Faridabad is survived by his five daughters.

Three of his daughters are settled in United States. Captain Kachru had shifted to Faridabad a few years ago from Kalkaji in Delhi where he used to reside earlier.

He breathed his last early Saturday and was cremated in the Sector 21D cremation grounds in the evening.

Captain Kachru shot into limelight after the Indian Airlines aircraft he was piloting was hijacked by two Kashmiri separatists in 1971. The plane carrying 26 passengers was hijacked to Lahore in Pakistan.