Pratappur. On Monday, the police arrested the two accused who burnt the body of Rishu Kashyap, a fourth class student, resident of Ward No. 4 of Pratappur Nagar Panchayat, and sent them to jail. Now the administration will raze the illegal houses of both the accused by using bulldozers. It is noteworthy that the demand of hanging the accused of murder of the student and running bulldozers on their illegal houses was made by the angry residents of the city.
It is noteworthy that Rishu Kashyap, 10 year old son of Ashok Kashyap, resident of ward number 4 of Pratappur, was kidnapped by Vishal Tamrakar and Shubham Soni, residents of his neighborhood, on the evening of January 29. After the kidnapping, they took him on a bike to Premmara forest in Karsi. When it was too late in the evening, when the student insisted on going home, the accused Vishal Tamrakar killed him by hitting him on the head with a stick. After this, after taking out petrol from the bike, both of them burnt his body in a stone cave.
Not only this, two days after the incident, Vishal Tamrakar had scattered the burnt remains of his dead body so that no one could know anything. After this, on February 8, the accused had robbed a person’s mobile phone near Latori located on Ambikapur-Banaras road. From the stolen mobile phone, he had called the student’s father for ransom. Not only this, accused Shubham Soni had thrown a threatening letter and the stolen mobile phone in the student’s house for ransom.
Meanwhile, due to the student not being found, the anger of the residents of Pratappur towards the police was increasing. The police had also deployed about one and a half dozen teams to search for the student. Meanwhile, after the information given by the cyber cell team of Ambikapur and Surajpur, the police took the accused Vishal Tamrakar and Shubham Soni into custody and interrogated them and they confessed to the murder of student Rishu and burning the dead body. The police had sent both of them to jail on Monday. There was a lot of anger in Pratappur after the murder of the student. The townspeople were demanding hanging of the accused. At the same time, he had demanded to run bulldozers on the illegal houses of the accused. On this, the houses of the accused will be razed to the ground by the administration by running bulldozers. For this, a notice has also been pasted by the Tehsildar at the house of the accused.
