Kidnapped child found murdered in Bihar

    Patna: The search for the six-year old child, who was kidnapped earlier on Saturday, ended tragically with the discovery of his body in the Barh Sub Division of the state located at 34 miles south-east of Patna. Senior Superintendent of Police Kundan Krishnan said that the victim's body was recovered from a village last night, and have in this connection, arrested five youth. Further investigations are also on, he said. "The body of the child, who had gone missing from his home in Dhamna Village under Barh Police Station on Saturday night, was recovered from near the village last night," he said. Six-year-old Kanhaiya Kumar, a son of a railway contractor, was kidnapped by criminals who later asked the family to pay a ransom of rupees three lakhs. They had also threatened to kill the child if the money was not paid within the prescribed time.

   In another incident, a college student was abducted from Sultanganj in Patna on Sunday. Acccording to the Police, the victim was the son of a Begusarai based businessman and was preparing for engineering admission tests while living in a rental lodge in Patna. Despite Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's claim of a crime-free state, the state's crime graph is on the rise. It has seen a spate of kidnappings over the past few days. Only five days back, Prashant Jain, a garment shop owner was abducted and has still not been traced.

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