The Doraha police claimed to have solved a case of blind murder of a 14-year-old specially-abled boy with the arrest of Mani Kumar, a 35-year-old resident of Doraha village, who was posing as a worker at a factory in Bhawanigarh in Sangrur, Patiala.
The police maintained that the minor boy, residing with his mother in the forest area of Katana Sahib in Katana, went missing on May 6. The matter was reported by locals to the police, which registered a case under Section 103 of the BNS against the unidentified suspect.
The police team followed the trail of victim’s belongings and with the assistance of residents, recovered the unclothed body of the boy from the village pond and his bloodstained clothes from near the water body. Preliminary information suggested foul play but it was too early to arrive at a conclusion.
SHO, Doraha, Akash Dutt, said the case was challenging as there was no CCTV footage or digital evidence from the crime scene.
“The breakthrough came when we found a video clip showing a man near the area around the time of the crime. It was on the basis of that, we nabbed Mani,” the SHO said.
SP(D) Pawanjit Singh said it was a sensitive case, involving a minor.
“Despite no digital evidence, our teams relied on extensive groundwork and intelligence to identify and arrest the suspect. The Mani is a serial rapist, who was in jail for the past five years for sexually abusing a woman and attempting to murder her. He was released from jail last year,” he added.
