Mukim Khan a 17-year-old student has been abducted and murdered by his classmates in Mumbai. According to police the 12th standard Commerce student of Rizvi College went missing on February 13.
The body of Mukim Khan was fished out of a drain in Vakola and taken to Cooper Hospital for autopsy.
Police have taken two of his colleagues, Amir and Sarfaraz, into custody for abducting and murdering Mukim. The duo led the police to the spot where Mukim's body was dumped.
Police said a ransom demand of Rs 2 lakh had been made for Mukim's release. Mukim's father is a landlord and they live in the Khar-Bandra area.
"He told his mother that he was going to Amir's house and that was the last time we heard from him. He told us to call on his phone if needed. He had a mobile phone which his kidnappers used to call us and it was switched off after that," Moukim's father Akbar Khan said.
"The person in custody now for Moukim's murder was his classmate. Both were studying in class 12 in the same college and they did all this for the ransom. There can be more than one person involved in this, our investigations are on," said Nisar Tamboli, DCP, Mumbai, Zone 8.
Police sources say that money may not be the motive behind the murder of Moukim and that the boy may have been murdered before suspects made the ransom call.
They said that Moukim was murdered before 12 pm on February 13, and ransom calls were made at 2 pm.
Police sources said that Mukeem may have been hit with a hammer.
Sources also said that Amir has confessed to the crime and took the police to the area where Moukim's body was found.
This latest incident of kidnapping and murder of a teenager comes a little more than a year after the Adnan Patrawala case.
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