Minors kill boy after fulfilling his ‘last wish’ for rosogolla in West Bengal

KRISHNANAGAR (NADIA): Sweet revenge took a bitter and bizarre turn in a Bengal village when three minors fed a 14-year-old “rosogolla and cold drinks to fulfil his dying wish” after a “Rs 3-lakh ransom call” to his widowed poor mother apparently went unheeded.

The blood-curdling revelations came forth in a police submission to a Juvenile Justice Board on Sunday in Nadia’s Krishnanagar about the Class VIII student’s August 25 death at the hands of his three kidnappers who wanted the ransom to “buy a computer to play games”.

The deceased’s father had died a few years ago. He lived with his mother, who works as a domestic attendant, in his maternal uncle’s home in Krishnanagar’s Ghurni.

Police said the student went missing on Friday afternoon. His mother Soma said: “He had gone to a shop but did not return at night. I lodged a complaint at Kotwali police station early Saturday.”

The three juveniles were arrested on Saturday after they confessed to the crime, telling the cops that they took the boy to the outskirts of Krishnanagar town, strangled him, stuffed the body into a sack and threw it into a pond. Police recovered the body and suspect the kidnappers knew the 14-year-old.