UP: Body of 13-year-old missing Saharanpur madrasa student found in mustard field

The 13-year-old was last seen on Sunday when he left the Madrasa for home.

Saharanpur:The body of a madrasa student, who was missing since Monday, was discovered on Tuesday morning at Sampla village under Deoband Kotwali area of Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district. The body, with its throat slit, was discovered by locals early in the day when they were going to the fields, according to the police.

"The 13-year-old had left the madrasa to go home on Monday evening, but never reached home. The search was on to identify the culprits, who murdered the boy," SSP Vipin Tada said. CCTV cameras in the village will be examined, he said. The dog squad and the forensic team are both at the spot and will conduct a probe into the murder, he added. The boy's friends are being questioned. The body has been shifted for conducting the post-mortem and a case has been registered based on a complaint lodged by the victim's relatives, the SSP also said.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, January 29, the body of the wife of a police constable was found inside a locked room at the Kasaya village of Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar. Notably, the deceased, Soni Ansari, was party to an interfaith marriage, whose death comes at a time when complaints of 'Love Jihad' are increasingly surfacing in society. The victim's body was dumped into a canal as locals denied space in the graveyard as it was a inter-religion marriage.