Overview
- The child vanished while playing outside his home and was later found in the accused driver's rented accommodation, according to police.
- Officers broke the lock to enter the room and recovered a knife and a brick before the child was taken to a hospital and declared dead.
- The boy’s father, a transport businessman, told police he had slapped the driver after an alcohol-fuelled fight between two employees.
- A kidnapping-and-murder case has been registered as investigators deploy multiple teams, technical surveillance and CCTV review.
- Police identified the absconding suspect as Nitu from Bihar’s Madhubani district and have sent teams there to locate him.