Charging cops with inaction, public went on a rampage at the Sanand police station on Thursday over the abduction and subsequent murder of a teenager. Two persons, including the kidnapped youngster’s classmate, have been arrested. Two are still on the run.
The body of the 16-year-old Shaktisinh Zala was recovered from a well of a house under construction at a deserted place at Goraj, 6 km off Sanand. The boy went missing on Tuesday night. He was killed within four hours of his abduction, the police said.
Rural SP Sandip Singh said: “Dilawar Mir, one of the arrested abductors, confessed that Shaktisinh was murdered within four hours of his abduction. We are investigating why did they kill Shaktisinh if they abducted him for ransom.”
Earlier in the day, the failure of the police to rescue Shaktisinh from the clutches of his abductors despite interrogating a suspect — named in the FIR lodged by his father, Dilipsinh — triggered the mob fury. The shopkeepers kept their shutters down as a mark of protest.
The release of the suspect, Sunil Patel, a classmate of Shaktisinh, after detention on Wednesday morning triggered the mob frenzy. After reinforcement from Viramgam reached the Sanand police station, the cops resorted to a mild lathicharge to disperse the 1,500-strong mob, leaving a few bleeding. Some cops sustained minor injuries in the stone-pelting by angry residents, who also brought traffic to a grinding halt for almost 20 minutes on the busy Sanand road.
Shaktisinh, a Class XI student of New Era School and a resident of Kailash Dham on Bavla Road in Sanand, received a call from Sunil on Tuesday night around 8.30. Sunil asked Shaktisinh to meet him on Nal Sarovar Road for some urgent work.
Dilipsinh, a mobile shop owner, said: “My son refused. But he budged after repeated requests and left home on a bike.”
When Shaktisinh did not return till 1 am on Wednesday, Dilipsinh lodged a non-cognisant complaint at the Sanand police station. He also quizzed Sunil but the latter said: “Shakti met me. But he left after a few minutes to meet another friend.”
Dilipsinh rushed to the residence of the friend Shaktisinh went to see. But he told Dilipsinh that Shaktisinh did not meet him on Tuesday night.
The police detained Sunil on Wednesday morning. But he was released after interrogation, said Singh.
Dilipsinh immediately went to the Sanand police station and lodged a kidnapping complaint, naming Sunil a suspect. After probe, the cops figured out the ransom call was made from a PCO at Apna Bazaar near Lal Darwaza. The cops detained Sunil again.
Sources said Sunil confessed to the police during interrogation that Asif Mir (28), his maternal uncle Dilawar (40) and Pranav Patel (25) had asked him to call Shakti. “After Shakti came to Nal Sarovar Road, the trio asked me to leave. They were supposed to take him to a house under construction at a deserted place at Goraj village,” he is said to have told the police.
On Thursday morning, a Goraj villager informed the police about a body lying in the well of the incomplete house. Sanand cops rushed to the spot and fished out the body sporting trousers and bearing injury marks on the right side of neck. Dilipsinh later identified it as that of Shaktisinh.
As the news spread, the mob gathered at Sanand police station and went on a rampage.
Sunil was arrested late in the evening after he confessed to have hatched a conspiracy with Asif, Pranav and Dilawar to abduct Shaktisinh. Dilawar, a resident of Karjan, was arrested from Vadodara.
Sanand police inspector MM Zala said: “Sunil and Dilawar have been arrested. The two others involved in the crime will also be arrested soon.”
Shaktisinh Zala Kidnapped on
Tuesday night, body found on
Thursday
Shaktisinh’s father Dilipsinh
got the suspect, Sunil Patel,
detained on Wednesday itself.
Still, the cops were unable to save his sonIntoxication bait
Abducted and murdered: Shaktisinh Zala (16)
Buddies: Shaktisinh, Sunil, Asif and Pranav consumed cough syrup for intoxication together Why abduction: Shaktisinh’s father earned crores selling off a plot at Kalol. Pranav proposed Asif to abduct Shaktisinh for ransom. Sunil and Dilawar joined in later
First attempt: Sunil, Pranav, Asif and Dilawar took Shaktisinh to Dholka on Saturday on the pretext of drinking cough syrup. But they could not abduct him due to the presence of people
Mission accomplished: The cough syrup bait used again on Tuesday night to abduct Shaktisinh. They took him to a house in a deserted place in Goraj. Dilawar tied Shaktisinh’s hands
Last chance: Shaktisinh’s hands got unfastened by chance. He tried to call home from mobile, but was overpowered
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