Not satisfied by HC verdict, Yug’s family to approach Supreme Court

The High Court order, acquitting one accused and turning the death sentence of two others into life imprisonment, has left the family of four-year-old Yug, whose kidnapping and murder had shaken the state in 2014, completely shattered.

The family members, which were unaware about the final order being delivered today, were not present in the court when the order was delivered. “We are not satisfied with the High Court order and will appeal against it in the Supreme Court. We are totally dissatisfied with the court order after an endless wait of 11 years,” said a teary-eyed Vinod Gupta, Yug’s father. Yug’s sobbing grandmother and mother stood shattered next to him.

“We miss him every single day and wanted that the accused should be punished accordingly. Justice has not been given to our child even after 11 years. He was four years old when he was killed and he would have been 15-year-old today,” said a Gupta, reminiscing the horrific murder.

“We were living till now to get justice for our child and even if we have to end everything to get justice for him, we will do it,” he said while stating that he will fight for justice right up to the Supreme Court even if he has to sell everything. “Our demand is grant of death sentence for all the three accused as had been ordered by the lower court,” he added.

Nearly two years after the boy went missing, the Municipal Corporation during a routine cleaning of a water tank near found a skeleton inside the tank. Initially thought to be of an animal, reports revealed the skeleton was of the missing boy, who had been thrown alive into the water tank, a fact confirmed by post-mortem.

The life of the Gupta family turned upside down in 2014, when on one random day Yug, their four-year-old son went missing from Ram Bazaar, sending the family into a frenzy. The family approached the police, who searched for Yug and later advised the family to check if Yug was with any of their relatives, however, the child remained untraceable.

Still clueless about the whereabouts of Yug, Arvind Kumar, who worked for Vinod, informed him that he had received a ransom letter in which the kidnappers had demanded Rs 3.60 crores as ransom. Vinod immediately informed the police who advised him to do exactly as the letter stated and a police team to nab the kidnappers was constituted.