Woman, Son, 19, Arrested For Killing Of 8-Year-Old: J&K Cops
NDTV
The body was recovered from a forest area three weeks after the child, Talib Hussain, went missing from his home at Awoora village.
A woman and her son have been arrested for abduction and killing of an eight-year-old child in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, said police. The animosity of woman with the father of murdered child is believed to be cause behind the crime, it added.
The body was recovered from a forest area three weeks after the child, Talib Hussain, went missing from his home at Awoora village. Hundreds of people staged protest demanded severest punishment to killers.
Initially, it was suspected that the child may have fallen prey to some wild animal given the proximity of village to forest area. Police launched relentless searches in forests, water bodies and ponds in the area to trace the body.
A sustained police investigation, however, led to vital clues about kidnapping and subsequent murder. After questioning a large number of people in the area, the investigators zeroed in on Shahnaza Begum and her 19-year-old son Amir Ahmad.
