Overview

• Shams Qamar, 19, is accused of luring the boy with biscuits on August 12 and strangling him near a tree plantation.
• Police relied on CCTV footage and local inquiries to trace Qamar to his workplace and arrest him on August 15.
• Officers recovered the child’s body from a plantation near the Ambedkar statue and sent it to Gandhi Hospital for post-mortem before handing it to his family.
• Qamar faces charges under sections 5 and 6 of the POCSO Act and sections 137(2) and 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• He has been remanded to judicial custody and is undergoing an age determination test while investigators continue technical and field inquiries.