Pune kid killed for money to buy motorbike

Pune: The authorities in Pune have taken into custody two persons -
one of them a minor- for kidnapping and killing a 5-year-old boy after
holding him for a ransom.

Reports, Tuesday, claimed that the minor 'Shubh Rawal' was kidnapped
and strangled to death by a 19-year-old hotel management student
Parminder Singh with the help of a 15-year-old class 10 student late
on Sunday.

The two have been detained and booked for murder.

Pune police claims that the main accused Parminder, who worked
part-time at a shopping mall, dreamt of buying a motorbike, which
possibly led him to commit the crime.

"Parminder, resident of Defence Security Corps quarters, Ramnagar,
kidnapped Shubh Bhupendra Raval last evening and afterwards
strangulated him and dumped the body on the ARDE hill," Ajay Kadam,
Senior Police Inspector, Chatushringi Police Station was quote as
telling the reporters.

After its initial investigation into the matter, the police claim that
Parminder and his accomplice hoped to make big money by abducting the
only child of what they believed were rich parents.

Shubh's parents, Sukeshree and Bhupendra Rawal are scientists, working
at the High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) and Armament
Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) in Pune respectively.

During his interrogation, Parminder has narrated to police how he
kidnapped Subh on that fateful Sunday evening.

Parminder told the police that he kidnapped Subh, who was playing near
the Ganpati mandal at the ARDE complex with friends. He lured him to
buy a chocolate and when the unsuspecting innocent boy agreed to come
with him, he took Subh to the nearby Pashan Hills.

There, Parminder asked Shubh to give his father's mobile number,
however, the minor refused to oblige him and instead started crying.

This angered Parminder, who, in a fit of rage, allegedly strangled
Shubh's neck and later, gagged him to death with a handkerchief.

The police have arrested Parminder and his associate, a Class X
student of the Army Public School in Pune Cantonment and the duo has
been booked for murder following a complaint lodged by Shubh's father.