14yrold missing boy found dead in Ganderbal

: The dead body of a 14-year-old missing boy was found in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday triggering shock in the area.

Faisal Hussain Misgar, a Class-6 student, had left home at Busaebugh village on Monday and his body was found in a field on Tuesday, some 500 metre away from his home, police said.

Ganderbal station house officer Arshad Salfi said the parents had not filed a missing report with the police thinking that the child must have gone to some relatives home. “He had left home on Monday and when he did not return, they started looking for him at relatives and other places,” Salfi said. The officer said that they were waiting for the postmortem report.

Ganderbal superintendent of police (SP) Khaleel Poswal said they were ascertaining the cause of death as there were bruises on the boy’s nose.“We have registered a murder case and detained a suspect based on family’s allegation that it was a murder,” he said, and added that they would be able to tell about the cause of death only after the postmortem report. “A board of doctors has been formed to ascertain the cause of his death,” the SP said.

THIRD SUCH INCIDENT

This is third such type of death of a minor in Kashmir in recent past. The mutilated and decomposed body of a 9-year-old girl was found in the forests of Boniyar in Baramulla district on September 2, nine days after she had gone missing from her home in Lari Trikanjan, Uri. Five people have been arrested in the case.

On July 19, a 10-year-old missing boy’s mutilated body was found three days after he had gone missing in north Kashmir’s Kulgam district. While Umar Farooq, a Class-3 student, had gone missing after he left home for the market in Gulgam village of Kupwara and later, his body was found naked, partially burnt and his left arm was missing.

POLICE SAY EXACT CAUSE OF DEATH WILL BE ASCERTAINED AFTER THE POSTMORTEM