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Boy found murdered

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI APRIL 12. A 12-year-old boy was found murdered under highly mysterious circumstances after being kidnapped at Rohini in North-West Delhi in the early hours of Thursday.

According to the police, Pankaj, step-son of Mangal Sen, a resident of C Block, Sector 5, Rohini, had gone missing from his house around 2-30 p.m. on April 9. Mangal thought Pankaj had gone to play with his friends, but got worried when he did not return. "In the evening a neighbour informed me that he had seen Pankaj with a woman, who is our neighbour. But when we went to check her house, it was locked from outside. We then began searching elsewhere and called up our relatives,'' said Mangal Sen.

In the morning, the family approached Vijay Vihar police post and lodged a missing complaint "Police personnel told us that she would be appearing in the court at Jahangirpuri in relation to an old case and she would be nabbed there,'' Mangal said. However, the woman did not appear as her lawyer gave an application to the court expressing her inability to come to the court. In the evening, a case of kidnapping was lodged.

The residents of the area then asked the police personnel to break into the house. However, it was only after a senior police officer arrived that the lock was broken around 2-45 a.m. and much to the horror of his family members, the body of Pankaj was found in one of the rooms.

The body, which had turned blue, had injuries on the head and there was a plastic cord around his neck. A half-eaten "parantha'' was found in a plate in another room. Another half-cooked was found on the pan.

Police have not found anything in the house of the woman, through which she could be identified. "Things like diaries, documents or photographs were missing from the house. It is a matter of investigation if the woman herself removed these or somebody else did it,'' a police officer said.

In the morning when senior police officers arrived at the spot, the area residents expressed their anger over the alleged delay in action by the police. A team of policemen were posted there as a precautionary measure.

The reason behind the incident is yet not clear. "She used to take our children out for a walk and many other children used to go to the woman's house to play,'' Mangal said. The woman lived along with her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

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