“A tailor was arrested on March 25 for allegedly kidnapping a nine-year-old boy for ransom of ₹23 lakh, with which he wanted to build a house, and murdering him in Thane district of Maharashtra,” police said.
The boy, identified as Ibadat, went missing when he was returning from a mosque in Goregaon village where he had gone for evening prayers on March 24. Prima facie, the accused is known to the victim. “He probably lured the victim to accompany him under some pretext,” a Badlapur police station official said.
