Overview
- Police say the boy left home on May 21 and that a missing-person report was filed the next day when his body was recovered from an abandoned house in Rohi village on May 22.
- Noida Police have arrested three men identified as Naresh, Mohit and Umesh Kumar and said two of the suspects were injured during an encounter with officers.
- Authorities allege the suspects forced the 15-year-old to smoke a hookah mixed with a high amount of tobacco and that the boy died of asphyxiation, a claim now subject to toxicology on viscera samples.
- The post-mortem found no external injuries and investigators seized two illegal country-made pistols, cartridges and an unregistered motorcycle, which could lead to additional charges.
- What to watch next: forensic chemical analysis of the viscera, formal charges after lab results, and police briefings that will clarify how the medical findings match the alleged motive and sequence of events.