Overview

• Two boys aged 14 and 16 confessed to luring 19-year-old Shadab Ansari to a guava orchard on June 20 and murdering him by slitting his throat and bludgeoning his head with a brick.
• Investigators recovered the victim’s iPhone, the knife and the brick at the scene and registered charges under Sections 103(1) for murder and 238 for concealment of evidence.
• The suspects said they targeted the iPhone to create higher-quality social media reels and earn money through views and likes.
• Shadab had returned from Bengaluru to attend his uncle’s wedding feast before disappearing, triggering local protests over alleged delays in police response.
• Authorities are still searching for two adult suspects, identified as Zulfiqar and Abed Ahmed alias Raju Netaji, who remain at large.