Sanjaya Mahara, son of Jogiya from Fulkaha-4 in Mahottari who is a cobller in Charikot for 28 years, was abducted on April 18. [break]
His body was found four days later in Sitamadhi, India but the family was oblivious of the fact till now. “I had a faint hope of seeing him alive. But he was murdered then only. What did you do to me God!” Jogiya, who himself reached India in search of his missing son, said showing a photograph of his son´s dead body.
“Nobody gave the news of his death nor did anyone show interest for his search,” rued Jogiya, who finally knew of the death a few days ago in Sitamadhi after traveling across Nepal in search of his son. “My wife Jagatarun Devi has not eaten anything for the past few days after learning about the death,” Jogiya revealed.
Ram Kishor Raya of Siwan, India, who dealt with scraps in Charikot, Noor Alam Siddhiqui of Sitamadhi who sold clothes in Dolakaha, and Zubair Mansoor of Lakshmipur-6, Siraha who made quilts and mattresses in Charikot, are currently in judicial custody at Charikot jail on the charge of kidnapping and murder.
They had demanded ransom of Rs 1 million from Jogiya.
“Police had found his body in a gutter near Siddiqi´s house in Marpha, Sitamadhi and they apparently buried him after conducting post mortem,” Jogiya said.
Jogiya had gone to Sitamadhi with some locals after someone from Sitamadhi told him that a body of unknown boy was found there nine months ago when Jogiya had gone to his native home in Mahottari a couple of weeks ago.
He knew about the death of his son, a second grader at the Mount Valley Boarding School in Charikot, from local Indian police after staying there for 11 days. He returned to Dolakha Thursday with the photograph of his son´s body and the post mortem report. He has demanded sternest punishment for the murderers of his youngest son.
Dolakha Police said Alam had taken the boy to Khadichaur in Sindhupalchowk on April 18 promising to give him Rs 5,000 and a cell phone set and handed him over to a third person from there. Police had arrested mastermind Raya and accomplice Mansoor on April 21 and nabbed Alam and Siddiqui on April 27.
DSP Dhiraj Pratap Singh said the abductors will be tried on murder charge and the case would be made in co-ordination with Indian police.
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