Medininagar (Jharkhand), August 12: The body of a seven-year-old boy, who was kidnapped on Tuesday, was found near here today and his uncle has been charged with murder, a senior police officer said.
The body of Prajwal, son of contractor Shyamakant Tiwari, was found by police near Amanat river, about 10 km from here, SP Anup Mathew said.
“Yesterday, we took three persons into custody. One of them is his uncle, Abhinav Tiwari. During interrogation they confessed to have kidnapped the boy on Tuesday and killed him within two hours of the abduction,” Mathew said.
Family dispute is said to be the reason behind the killing of the boy, who was a lower KG student of Convent school, he said.
–Agencies