Skeleton tumbles out in missing boy case
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The state government on Monday informed Madras HC that police had recovered from Krishnagiri district the skeleton of a class 11 boy who went missing on October 15, 2011, after he allegedly developed an affair with a class 12 girl in Hosur.
Additional public prosecutor Govindarajan informed this to a division bench comprising justices K.N. Basha and P. Devadoss when the habeas corpus petition (HCP) filed by Sushil Mandal, father of the 17-year-old boy, came up for hearing.
Mr Govindarajan submitted that the boy’s skeleton has been traced and investigation was proceeding. The skull has been sent for forensic analysis, he added.
Recording the submission, the bench directed the government to inform them on the development to Mr Mandal and posted after two weeks further hearing of the case.
Though the boy went missing on October 15, the investigation picked up speed only after the HC expressed dissatisfaction over the probe and directed the Krishnagiri SP to monitor the probe.
In his HCP, Mr Mandal, hailing from West Bengal and working for a private granite company in Hosur, submitted that his son went missing since October 15, 2011. Local police, who registered a boy missing case on October 18, did not take any steps to trace the boy.
Though he suspected that a Central excise inspector working in Hosur might be keeping the boy in his illegal custody, because he had developed friendship with his daughter, the officer gave him evasive replies and offered him money. As the local police did not act, he approached several authorities and finally filed the present HCP, he added.
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