Kumar Rajiv Nayan

Ara : Irate villagers blocked Ara-Sahar main road on July 22, 2018, to protest release of three persons arrested in connection with murder of Sunny Kumar, 13, by police after keeping them in police custody for aday.

Though the police claimed that the trio were released as they were innocent, family members of the deceased and villages alleged that police released them after taking money. They were demanding justice. All efforts of police to remove blockade went in vain as they were insisting on calling Bhojpur SP on the spot. The blockade was continuing till the filling of this report.

Sunny Kumar, 13, son of Upendra Pandey of village Dhobaha Bazaar under Pawana police station, was decoyed from a religious congregation at the village on July 19, 2018, late evening and was taken to the roof of Bijay Kahar where Bijay Kahar and his son Fittu Kahar, friend of Sunny Pandey, allegedly killed him. The villagers caught them when they were trying to hide the body.

SHO, Pawana police station, refuted all the charges and said that police had arrested three persons from the house where the boy was killed and kept them under police custody for a day. He said they were released as they were found innocent during interrogation.

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