Faridabad boy’s body found buried near school, ‘killer’ admits to sexual assault

The Faridabad Police arrested an 18-year-old boy on Monday allegedly for killing a 12-year-old school boy, who had been missing since August 24.

The victim’s decomposing body, besides his uniform, were recovered from the crime spot on Monday while the accused was sent into five-day police custody.

Police said the accused has admitted to the crime and disclosed that he sexually assaulted the victim before killing him. “We rounded up Suraj late on Sunday and questioned him. During the interrogation he confessed to having killed the boy. The accused revealed that during recess on August 24, he lured the boy and took him to the nearby bushes where he strangled him to death,” said Hans Raj, SHO, Ballabgarh Sadar.

The police said they have recovered shirt, pant and decomposing body of the victim from the crime spot and sent them for forensic examination. “All angles of the case are being investigated,” the SHO said.

The family of the victim had registered a missing case with Ballabgarh Sadar Police station on August 24. The family had alleged that their ward, who studied in class 7 in a government school in their village, did not return after he had gone to school on August 24.

Police said the family got suspicious about Suraj of the same village as he had gone missing from home after the incident.