Neighbor’s act, took him around the city, fed him in a hotel and then murdered him

Bastar. In the district, a young man killed a 9 year old child living in his neighbourhood. He had taken the child out of the house on the pretext of taking him for a walk, then seeing the opportunity he strangled her to death. After this, along with his friend, he also slit his throat. Police have arrested the accused. The matter is of Parpa police station area.

According to the information, the name of the child is Ved Verma, who was a resident of Usribeda of Lohandiguda police station area. A day before on Tuesday, he was sitting outside his house. Meanwhile, young man Nitish Kushwaha (19), who lives in his neighbourhood, reached him. Nitesh talked about taking the child to Jagdalpur and took him with him on the bike.

Nitesh roamed around the city with the child the whole day and also fed him in the hotel. After this, he along with his friend Hansraj brought the child near Palli Naka. Here late in the evening, Nitesh along with his friend strangled the child. After this his throat was also slit. After the murder, both of them fled after throwing the child’s body there. When Ved did not return home throughout the night, the family started searching for him. His body was found near Palli Naka on Wednesday morning. The body was sent to Dimarapal Medical College for postmortem. At the same time, after the murder of the child, the family members caught the neighbor Nitesh on the basis of suspicion. After this he was handed over to the police.