Avadesh Sakya, who was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping and smothering a seven-year-old on January 7, misled the family by cooking up stories, the police said.
Mr. Sakya was closely watching the investigation as he used to stay with the family and even ate all meals with them. The family also trusted him blindly, the police added.
When the police searched Mr. Sakya’s house, 10 perfume bottles were found. “He used the perfume to keep the stench away and whenever someone asked him, he said rats had died and also showed them dead rats and rat poison,” the police said.
Weaving stories
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West) Aslam Khan said when he was picked up around 6 a.m. after hours of investigation till late on Monday, Mr. Sakya allegedly narrated another story before finally confessing to the crime. “He told the police that one Deepak and two of his friends had come to his house on January 7 with the child. They got him drunk and then shot the boy. They then dumped the body in his house and left,” she said. But the story was hard to believe because the police had thoroughly investigated the role of the persons he had named as their involvement was suspected by the family as well.
Ms. Khan said that the family had given the police three names because of their alleged fight with them years ago and Mr. Sakya also persuaded the family to look into their role. “Initially, the teams were looking into the role of those three people and they were brought in for questioning but their alibi checked out,” she said.
The police then scanned the CCTV footage of nearby areas and even came across one where two persons were seen taking a boy in a blanket on a motorcycle. “The two persons were then traced but it was found that the boy was their son and they were taking him to the hospital as he was sick. The boy had died the same day,” the DCP said. After the family started suspecting Mr. Sakya and approached the police, the latter’s movement was tracked for four days. “Earlier, he was in constant touch with police officers but he stopped taking their calls in the last few days. He would leave his phone at his house so that his movement could not be tracked and would also stay out till late which made him a suspect,” she said.
