A 17 year old boy and his girl friend kidnapped and murder their neighbour’s 13-year-old son in south-east Delhis’ Badarpur area. Both the boy and girl demanded 60,000 for ransom from the child’s family, so that they could able to pay the entry fees of dance reality show Dance India Dance. However, their plans fell out after the child discovered their intentions, following which they killed the boy and dumped the body in a ditch near Ranikhet in Uttarakhand.
Juvenile Couple News On Dance India Dance
The child, Swapnesh Gupta went missing from outside his school in Chuna Bhatti area on September 15. The couple had lured him to accompany them to the auditions of a dance reality show in Rudrapur. Family members say that Swapnesh also wanted to become a dancer and had idolized the couple as his mentors.
Meanwhile, the child’s father Rajesh filed a missing case on September 16. “We registered a case of kidnapping and formed A team led by ACP Nidhin Valsan and SHO Badarpur Aishvir Singh to look for him. Also, 10 teams were sent to the neighboring states,” said Mandeep Singh Randhawa, DCP, south east.
Cops said, “On the way to Rudrapur, the couple befriended a man on the bus and convinced him to allow them a night’s stay at his house near Corbett National Park. Later at night they took the child to a hill and strangled the child with the belt and pushed him off the cliff into a ditch” on being asked about the incident.
The decomposed body of the child was recovered on Monday and handed over to the family members after an autopsy thereafter.
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