Varanasi: Mirzapur police on Tuesday arrested two men after an encounter in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old boy from Semri village under Vindhyachal police station area.Police said the main accused, Pintu, allegedly took the boy, from his village on Monday evening on the pretext of giving him motorcycle riding training. He first took the child toward Bihasda market and later to a forest area near Kushiyara Fall under Lalganj police station limits, where he allegedly strangled him to death.The boy was the son of an owner of a tea and paan shop on Mirzapur-Prayagraj road. According to the boy’s father, the accused had been visiting his shop for the past four to five days. Around 4 pm on Monday, the accused took took the boy away with him.When the family tried to contact the accused later in the evening, his phone was found off. After the child did not return home, the family approached the police. The next morning, Pintu allegedly called the nephew of the boy’s father, and demanded ₹50 lakh as ransom.Police have launched a search operation after registering the kidnapping complaint. During the operation near Kushiyara Fall, police arrested the accused after an encounter in which he sustained bullet injuries in both legs.Another accused, Shailendra, a resident of Kamapur in Vindhyachal, was also arrested.Mirzapur Superintendent of Police Aparna Rajat Kaushik said the accused confessed during interrogation that he had taken the child around for nearly two hours before killing him in the forest.The child’s body was recovered from the forest and was sent for post-mortem examination.
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