BAREILLY: Fareeq Ahmad, 15, was allegedly abducted and strangled to death by two brothers of a minor girl with whom the victim was having an affair.
The crime took place in Bahedi tehsil of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly. The class IX student had gone missing on December 9 and his body was recovered from a sugarcane field on December 28.
After initial investigation, police claimed the victim was murdered by two of the girl's brothers; one of them a minor. The duo was into custody on Sunday.
Fareeq was a resident of a village under the jurisdiction of Bahedi police station. The girl is also from the same village and her brothers were known to him. When Fareeq disappeared, his elder brother approached the police. On the basis of his complaint, an FIR was registered under section 363 (abduction) of IPC.
After finding Fareeq's body in a sugarcane field outside the village, Bareilly SSP Rohit Singh Sajwan deployed several to probe the case. During investigation, police came to know about Fareeq's affair and that girl's brothers had confronted him two days before he disappeared.
Additional superintendent of police (rural) Rajkumar Agarwal told TOI, “During investigation, we found that both the brothers of the girl, one of them aged 17 years, abducted Fareeq and strangled him to death using a rope. They buried the body in a sugarcane field. We recovered the rope used for the murder and the spade used for burying the body. Sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 302 (murder) of IPC were added to the original FIR and the accused will be produced before a magistrate.”
