Kidnapped four-year-old was starved and was physically tortured. (Representational Image)
Four-year-old Yug, whose skeletal remains were recovered earlier this week from a municipal water tank after being kidnapped two years ago, was subjected to inhuman torture for seven days before he was murdered in cold blood, a CID team investigating the case said today.
A CID (Crime Branch) team conducting the investigation revealed that the accused Chander, Tajender and Vikrant, who are on five days police remand, "starved the boy, kept his hands tied and physically tortured him."
The CID team recovered a mobile phone from one of the accused and found that some clips had been had been deleted. The clips, later restored by forensic experts showed a little boy whose hands were tied and mouth gagged.
The accused had allegedly dumped the boy in the water tank after tying him with a stone in semi-conscious condition and the skeleton was taken out eight months ago when the Municipal Corporation staff was cleaning the tank in the wake of jaundice outbreak.
The municipal workers did not inform the police about the skeleton but the accused reportedly told the investigators about dumping the body in water tank in posh Kelston area.
The CID team today took the accused to all the spots, the transport used, place where he was held captive and the water tank to verify the information extracted during interrogation.