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Missing child’s body recovered
Murder not ruled out
Dharmendra Joshi
Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, October 2
Following the recovery of the missing one-year-and-nine-month-old child, Jaspreet Singh Abhi’s mutilated body from Ramgarh village pond, the district police has not ruled out the possibility of his murder.

The Bholath station house officer (SHO) Bhupinder Singh said some parts of Abhi’s body had been sent to a forensic laboratory for examination after conducting the autopsy at the local Civil Hospital to know the exact cause of his death.

To a query, he said the police did not rule out the possibility of his murder.

Earlier Abhi’s body was found after two weeks. He had disappeared under mysterious circumstances from his house located in Ramgarh village falling under the Bholath police station on September 18.

Abhi was playing near the main door of his house. His mother Manpreet Kaur had went to the first floor for some work, but when she came back, she did not find her son.

At this she, along with other family members, started looking for the child in the neighbourhood, but they failed to find him.

Subsequently, they informed the police which registered a first information report (FIR) of kidnapping under Section 364 of the Indian Penal Code. Abhi’s family members said they had no enmity with anyone.

Though the police ruled out the possibility of kidnapping for ransom as the family is not so well-off, it had questioned several suspected persons including a tantrik.

While the FIR of kidnapping under Section 365 was already registered after Abhi’s mysterious disappearance, now the police has initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code after the recovery of his body.