Patiala Police on Friday cracked a blind murder case of six year old Manan Malik who was a resident of Ghanour.
Manan was abducted from the marriage party of Congress MLA Madan Lal Ghanour. This is the 16th blind murder case traced by Patiala police in last five months.
The accused have been identified as Avnish Kumar (37) and Sunita Begum (32) who had extra marital affair with the former. Due to hatred against Manan’s grandfather Naseer-ud-din both of them conspired to kill the six-year-old. SSP of Patiala Mandeep Singh Sidhu disclosed that Nasser-ud-din had evicted Sunita Begum from rented accommodation few months back due to which Sunita had developed hatred against him. To take a revenge for her insult, Avnish kidnapped Manan from the wedding, killed by strangulating him and later dumped his body in Lachdu Khurd.
Both the accused have been arrested and a case under section 302, 201 and 366 A of IPC has been registered.