AHMEDABAD: Danilimda police arrested a 21-year-old man, Sohail Shaikh, who allegedly kidnapped his six-year-old brother-in-law, Riyan, and murdered him. Sohail had a major fight with his wife after which he killed Riyan in a fit of rage.
According to Danilimda police, Sohail killed Riyan and disposed of his body in a canal near Changodar.
Police said a complaint for kidnapping was registered at Danilimda police station on Tuesday.
The police have now added charges of murder and causing the disappearance of evidence.
Police said the complainant, Batul Shaikh, Riyan’s mother, stated that on January 24, Riyan left for his tuitions and when he did not return till 8pm they went to inquire at the teacher’s place.
The teacher told them that Riyan had not come for tuitions.
The family then lodged a complaint for kidnapping.
The search for Riyan was intensified and the family began pasting posters of him as being missing.
Cops said during their investigation, a 27-year-old man, Vijay Parmar, said he had seen Riyan being driven somewhere in a rickshaw. He said Sohail had taken Riyan in his rickshaw.
When they were interrogating Sohail on Friday morning, police were informed of a body in the Fatehwadi canal.
The cops later learned that the body was Riyan’s. Sohail later confessed to committing the crime.
Cops said Sohail married Zara alias Nazo, Riyan’s sister, three years ago. The couple had fights recently and Sohail decided to teach Zara a lesson. She loved her brother Riyan dearly.
Cops said that when the family began pasting posters, Sohail thought he would be caught and decided to kill Riyan and disposed of his body in the canal.
Cops said he was under the impression that the cops would be unable to establish that the body was Riyan’s.
