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| Indian schoolboy beheaded after row with classmates |
| 2010-05-12 |
| [Dawn] Three schoolboys have been arrested for murder in western India after the body of a classmate was found beheaded and tied to a tree, police said Tuesday. A group of youngsters made the grim discovery last week as they went to play cricket by a river in the city of Pune, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) from Mumbai. The victim, Abhishek Ghorpade, 15, is thought to have been decapitated with a sickle. His head has yet to be recovered but was believed to have been thrown into the river, police told AFP. Ghorpade left home for a friend's birthday party last Wednesday evening and told his parents he would be home late, the Pune Mirror newspaper said. The teenager was believed to have had a row with the three suspects at school. Senior Police Inspector Deepak Sawant, in charge of the investigation, told the newspaper that the oldest suspect was taken to the crime scene on Saturday and he pointed out where Ghorpade was killed. "He told (us) that after Abhishek was killed, his head was thrown in the river. Now we have started a search operation to find the head," he was quoted as saying. The Indian Express newspaper said that all three boys were arrested on suspicion of murder and have been remanded in police custody or sent to secure accommodation. |
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