New Delhi, The body of a 10-year-old boy, who had gone missing from his home in Delhi’s Bawana area, was found in a forested area near a cemetery, with injury marks on his hands and legs, police said Tuesday.
The family searched for him in the surrounding areas and asked several people about his whereabouts. When he could not be traced, a missing person report was lodged with the police. Police received a PCR call around 3 pm on Monday about the body of a child lying in a blood-soaked condition in the Narela Industrial Area, following which a team reached the spot and recovered the body. Ayub, Intzar was playing near their house around 11.30 am on Sunday when he suddenly went missing, according to the boy’s father.
The body was sent for post-mortem examination and the police are awaiting the report to ascertain the cause of death, an official said. Crime and forensic teams were called to the spot and evidence was collected, police said. The exact cause and circumstances of the death will be clear after the post-mortem examination, police said.
The boy, identified as Intzar, was reported missing on Sunday after he was last seen playing in a lane near his home in Bawana, police said.
