Protests as boy’s skeletal remains found 2 yrs after abduction

Shimla, Aug 23 (PTI) Protests broke out in the city todayafter the skeletal remains of a four-year-old boy, kidnappedtwo years ago, was found with the protesters alleging policeinaction against the accused. Markets remained closed as traders joined the protestersincluding the victim’s family members who alleged the policedid not make any serious efforts to trace the boy. Yug was kidnapped on June 14, 2014 and his skeletalremains was recovered by CID from the water tank of municipalcorporation at Celestine near Bharari last evening. The skeletal remains was recovered following theinformation given by the main accused — Vikrant Bakshi duringinterrogation, police said. Police said the skeletal remains was identified as thatof Yug as the accused had said that they had dumped the boy inthe water tank. Two other accused — Chander Sharma and Tajender Singh,who runs a shop at Ram Bazaar and were out on bail earlier butarrested again and a case of murder under IPC section 302was lodged against them and Bakshi. Satish Gupta (rpt) Gupta, uncle of Yug, alleged that hewas killed after eight days of abduction and the accused kepton demanding ransom even after killing him. He alleged that Bakshi killed his nephew. The protest started after it was revealed that thearrested persons were the same suspects who the family membershad named in the case. The traders said had the police taken a timely actionwhen the accused were reportedly demanding ransom, the boycould have been saved. The protesters staged a dharna outside the Vidhan Sabhademanding death penalty for the accused and social boycott oftheir families. They later marched towards the High Court andRaj Bhawan here. PTI PCL ASV RG TIRRG