Pune:
Like many other teenagers, a 18-year-old college student in Pune was desperate to own a bike. He decided to earn it in the most grotesque of ways - by kidnapping a five-year-old boy who lived nearby and asking for a ransom of five lakhs. (
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The hotel management student, who the police identify only as Parminder, kidnapped the child, Shubh Rawal, on Sunday morning, but allegedly killed him a few hours later. To assist him, he had enrolled a friend who also lived nearby, a Class 10 student.
On Sunday, Shubh, the son of defence scientists, was playing at the mandal set up in his colony for Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. Parminder, the college student, offered him a chocolate and took him to a nearby forest. He then asked Shubh to share his father's phone number, so he could make a call for ransom. When the child refused, Parminder gagged and then strangled him, says the police.
The Pune police has arrested Parminder and his teen accomplice. The former has been sent to police custody till October 1.