Earlier this month, the Patna High Court had ordered the government to find out the missing 143 children in the state, mostly abducted in the past five years, and submit a report within six weeks.But the revelation of the death of a seven-year-old child when rats feast on his body is indeed horrifying.
The abducted child, Roshan, alias Raja, from Bhagalpur precisely met such macabre death when after abduction he was dumped in a drum by his abductor.
While Raja got suffocated inside the
drum, the rats nibbled away at his body, leading to the death.
The poor child was abducted on January 12 and the police recovered his body on January 18.
What shocked the police more was that the boy was abducted not by any professional criminal
gang, but by his neighbour.
After Raja's family informed the police about the ransom
call, the police used phone-caller identifying machine to trace the kidnapper.
After his arrest, kidnapper Sah admitted the gruesome crime committed by him when he stuffed Raja`s mouth with a cloth,tied his hands and feet with a rope and dumped him into a wooden drum infested with rats.
Investigation revealed that the boy had expired barely hours after the abduction.
The police has registered a case of abduction against Sah.
Meanwhile, the police today recovered two kidnapped school children, aged 8 and 10 respectively, from Saharsa district.
