India News | Missing 5-yr-old Boy Found Dead in Palghar; 1 Person Detained
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The body of a five-year-old boy, who went missing from near his house three days back, has been found in a drain here in Maharashtra, police said on Thursday.
Palghar, Dec 9 (PTI) The body of a five-year-old boy, who went missing from near his house three days back, has been found in a drain here in Maharashtra, police said on Thursday.
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The child was playing outside his house in Boisar area of Palghar district when he went missing around 1 pm on Monday.
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Later, his parents lodged a police complaint, based on which a case of kidnapping was registered, an official from Boisar police station said.
On Wednesday, the body was found with legs tied and dumped in a drain in Tarapur industrial area, he said.
The police sent the body to a government hospital for postmortem and registered a case against unidentified persons Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), the official said.
On Wednesday evening, the police detained a suspect and he was being questioned, he said.
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