Death of 11-year-old boy: It’s a murder, allege kin; autopsy confirmed suicide, say police

While the parents of a 11-year-old boy, Abhishek Kumar, who reportedly died by suicide, alleged that their son could not end his life and it was a murder, the police claimed that the post-mortem report clarified that the boy died after hanging himself. At the same time, the police also stated that his parents had denied having any personal enmity.

Assistant Commissioner Police (North) Devinder Chaudhry said the police had reached the conclusion that the boy had died by suicide and the lone witness, another minor boy, who saw the victim hanging from an iron rod attached to a shop, told the deceased’s parents that he saw Abhishek hanging on the rod and the parents of the victim misunderstood that someone hanged their son.

“We have gone through the CCTV camera footage also in which a boy was seen roaming alone in the grain market. Nobody was with him,” the ACP said.

On Sunday night, Abhishek was reportedly found hanging from an iron rod in the grain market near Jalandhar Bypass. His body was seen by another boy, who told the victim’s parents about the matter. Abhishek’s parents, who are daily wagers, said they believe their son could not die by suicide as he was not having any issues. They said when they saw the body of their son, his feet were touching the ground. Hence, it could not be a suicide.

The parents said Abhishek had gone to the grain market to get milk around 8 pm on Sunday and when he did not return, his mother started searching for him. It was then that a minor boy came running and told them that two men had taken Abhishek on a motorcycle. They strangled him and hanged him from an iron rod at the grain market. But the police stated that CCTV cameras did not capture anyone and only Abhishek was seen in the footage.