Pune teenager murdered by friends
PUNE: Three teenagers abducted and killed their 16-year-old friend for a ransom of Rs 50,000 after being inspired by a crime-based TV serial.
Shubham Shirke was kidnapped by their friends from Dighi area and was taken to a nearby hill where he was strangled to death. They demanded Rs 50,000 by calling their father which was later brought down to Rs 15,000, said police.”Shubham’s father paid the money to the abductors
at around 10:30 PM, but his son was not released by them following which he approached Vishrantwadi police,” said Police Inspector (crime) Pandurang Gofane.
All the three are arrested by police including a classmate of Shubham, who confessed to the murder and they have been booked under sections 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 383 (extortion), 302 (punishment for murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The identity of the accused has been withheld by the police. “Shubham was a student of Priyadarshini English Medium School in Bhosari area and had appeared for his class 10 examination this year.
Out of the arrested accused, two are minors and one has given 12th standard examination this year. One out of the three friends is a classmate of Shubham,” DCP (Zone four) Sanjay Jadhav said.
The three accused would keenly follow television serial ‘CID’ based on real crime incidents says Jadhav.
He said,”They decided to abduct son of a jeweller first. However, they could not succeed in their plan.” Later they hatched the plan to abduct Subham.”They called up Shubham, took him to a nearby hill in Vishrantwadi area and strangled him to death. After that they demanded Rs 50,000 from his father,” the DCP said.
