Bengaluru man, who led search for missing 4-year-old, arrested for murdering him

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According to the police, the man allegedly lured the boy away from his home, and sexually assaulted and murdered him

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Eleven months after a four-year-old boy went missing from his residence in Bengaluru, the accused has been nabbed by the police. The accused has been identified as Narada, a native of Bihar, who had moved to Bengaluru 25 years ago and settled down in Hosakote. Narada has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and murdering the boy. According to reports, the boy had gone missing from his home on the evening of January 1. Residents in the neighbourhood had joined the parents to search for the boy. Narada, too, joined the search party, pretending to search for the boy. Two days later, on January 3, a decomposed body was found near a eucalyptus grove, which is 300 meters away from the victim’s house in Hosakote. The Anugondanahalli police registered a case and started the investigation. As Narada himself was at the forefront of the search, there were no suspicions against him. It wasn’t until Ravi D Channannanavar, Superintendent of Police (Bengaluru Rural) directed the jurisdictional police to increase efforts to solve the case that they were able to identify the culprit. The police told the Times of India that the autopsy report had confirmed that the boy was sexually assaulted. “We suspected someone high on drugs may have committed the offence. We questioned two young male labourers and one of them told us that Narada used to invite them to have sex. We immediately picked up Narada. He first denied his role, but later confessed to the crime,” an investigating officer is quoted as telling the Times of India. As per reports, Narada used to lend money to the young labourers for purchasing ganja and would let them off from repaying the money if they allegedly agreed to have sex with him. Upon investigation by the police, Narada confessed to the crime and stated that it was an “accident.” According to his confession to the police, Narada claimed that he was looking for a partner on January 1 when he found the boy playing near his house. He allegedly took him to the eucalyptus grove and sexually assaulted him, following which, he claimed, the boy died. He has been remanded to judicial custody after the police produced him before a court on Thursday.

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