Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Kidnapped student found murdered

HYDERABAD: A seventh standard student, A. Kalyan, who was kidnapped from a playground at L.B. Nagar two days ago, was found murdered in the forest area of Eliminedu village in Ibrahimpatnam on the city outskirts on Tuesday.

Police believe the 12-year-old boy’s brutal murder to be a fall-out of property disputes his parents had with their relatives. “This is surely not a murder by professionals and we have inputs that persons known to the victim’s family are behind it,” the L.B. Nagar police who registered an abduction case said.

Kalyan’s father Raju, a tribal farmer of Mysigandi in Mahabubnagar district, had admitted his son in a Government High Residential School at Malakpet.

The boy used to come to his maternal uncle Balu’s house at Nandanavanam Colony, on holidays. Kalyan would earn Rs. 10 to Rs. 15 a day by supplying drinking water to teams playing cricket matches at the ground on holidays.

Along with a friend Ganesh, the boy was at the ground when an unidentified scooterist aged about 30 years lured Kalyan for a ride by offering a cricket bat and ball. “Ganesh says Kalyan told him that the man was his relative and he knew him,” investigators said.

The stranger left the place with Kalyan. As the boy did not return home, his uncle approached the L.B. Nagar police.

Even as searches were on, the police received information that the boy was found murdered at a secluded place at Eliminedu forest falling under Ibrahimpatnam police station’s jurisdiction.

Local police recognised him as Kalyan after finding his student bus pass in his clothes.

The killers hacked his throat with an axe. Similar deep cut injuries inflicted with an axe were also found on the neck.

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