STATE TIMES NEWS
Phagwara: A minor Kashmiri boy was found murdered in a rented accommodation in local Bhagatpura Mohalla on Thursday, police said.
The deceased has been identified as Arshad Ahmed (11).
Police said that his father Javed Ahmed had just come here two days ago from Jammu and Kashmir for seasonal selling of woollen garments.
Javed told police that he had been coming here every winter for the last several years for selling woollen garments and clothes.
An inconsolable Javed said that his son had come with him for the first time.
Javed said that he left in the morning for selling garments, leaving the boy behind in the rented room of Gali No 5 of the locality.
But when he returned in the afternoon, he found Arshad murdered.
Police said that the boy was stabbed in the stomach.
When contacted, Phagwara DSP Manpreet Singh Dhillon said police was investigating the motive behind the murder.
“It is suspected that the motive could have been the abortive bid to loot Rs 90,000 lying in the room”, the DSP said.
“The boy could have identified the unsuccessful looters who killed him in order to keep their identity hidden”, he said.
Dhillon said that Rs 90,000 were found intact in the room.
He said that the body was sent to Civil Hospital for the post-mortem and a murder case was registered against unknown persons.
