10-year-old found murdered, sodomy suspected
LUCKNOW : A 10-year-old balloon seller was found murdered on the pavement near the busy 1090 crossing here on Tuesday afternoon.
Police suspect the child was murdered after being sodomised or during a sodomy attempt. The boy was missing since Monday night. The spot where his body was found is barely 500 metres away from his house at Balu Adda area. His family and other locals staged demonstration near the crime scene demanding ex gratia and stern action against the culprit.
Police force was deployed in the area and at the boy’s house apprehending further agitation by locals.
A senior police officer said the post mortem report has confirmed that the boy was strangulated. He said doctors also preserved samples suspecting sodomy or sodomy attempt.
Additional superintendent of police (ASP) east Sarvesh Mishra said the boy used to sell balloons on the roadside between Samtamoolak crossing and 1090 crossing and was missing since he left his house near Balu Adda around 6pm on Monday.
LUCKNOW : A 10-year-old balloon seller was murdered after being allegedly sodomised or during sodomy attempt and his body was recovered on the pavement inside the rotary at the busy 1090 crossing here on Tuesday afternoon.
The boy was missing since Monday night. The spot where his body was found is barely 500 metres away from his house at Balu Adda area.
His family and other locals staged demonstration near the crime scene demanding ex-gratia and stern action against the culprit.
Police force was deployed in the area and at the boy’s house apprehending further agitation by locals.
A senior police officer said the post-mortem report has confirmed that the boy was strangulated. He said doctors also preserved samples suspecting sodomy or sodomy attempt.
Additional superintendent of police (ASP) east Sarvesh Mishra said the boy used to sell balloons on the roadside between Samtamoolak crossing and 1090 crossing and was missing since he left his house near Balu Adda around 6pm on Monday.
He said the boy often used to sleep on the pavement. The boy’s mother worked as a sanitation worker after the death of his father several years ago while his elder brother also used to sell balloons, added Mishra.
The ASP said the boy’s body was recovered after a passer-by informed the police about it at around 3pm.
He said froth was found coming out of the boy’s mouth and a vest like cloth was found wrapped around his neck.
The boy was wearing underwear and vest when he left his house but his vest was found
missing and the cloth found wrapped around the neck was not his vest, he said.
Mishra said circumstances suggested that the boy could have died on Monday night and the body kept lying there till Tuesday afternoon, but it is unbelievable that the body kept lying at such busy area without being noticed by anybody for so many hours.
The ASP said the police are trying to ascertain the sequence of event with the help of CCTV footages.
The boy’s mother said she came to know about the boy’s disappearance when she returned from night duty on Tuesday morning and started searching for him.
She said she could not find him anywhere and was planning to approach the police when somebody informed about the body lying at the 1090 crossing.
She ascertained the boy’s identity as her son when she reached there.