Fearing public wrath, the organisers of funfair in Naroda disposed off 9-yr-old’s body in Palanpur.
In a shocking crime that was unravelled on Thursday, two organisers of a funfair in Naroda dumped the body of a nine-year-old boy, who had died of electric shock while watching a performance, in Palanpur, to evade responsibility and the subsequent public wrath and negative publicity.
The decomposed body of the child, who was missing since Sunday, was found on Thursday near Chirasani village in Palanpur district. While the parents of the child had lodged a missing person’s complaint at Naroda police station on Sunday, some undisclosed sources are said to have tipped off joint commissioner of police, sector 1, Ajay Tomar, about the crime. He later asked the detection of crime branch to investigate the case.
Addressing a press conference, Tomar said Mayur Thakore went to the funfair on Sunday with his older brother. However, his brother returned home, while he stayed back to watch the maut ka kuva or well of death show.
While on the fair ground, Mayur came in contact with a live wire and was electrocuted. When the owner of the fair, Kunal Bhatt, and maut ka kuva stuntman Shaukat realised the boy was dead, they panicked and decided to dispose of the body before anyone could find out.
Bhatt and one of his employees, Sattar Khan, then hauled the boy’s body on to a bike and drove to Koba circle. The body was later put into a car, brought from Kalol by the other two accused, Lala and Mishra, Tomar said. Mishra and Bhatt were joint organisers of the fair.
They drove down to Palanpur and threw the body near a toll booth.
Police have lodged a murder case against the accused at Naroda police station. While three employees at the funfair, Altaf Hussain Ansari, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, Sattar Khan, a resident of Rajasthan, and Prakash Shinde, a resident of Beed in Maharashtra, were arrested on Thursday, the key accused Bhatt and Mishra, as well as Shaukat, are absconding. Police have launched a manhunt to track them down.
How police cracked the case
Undisclosed sources tipped off joint commissioner of police Ajay Tomar that an employee at the funfair, Kalwa Bagwan, had information about Mayur Thakore. The police tracked him down and he spilled the beans. People manning the toll booth near Chirasani outpost in Palanpur had also complained of a foul smell.
Beginning of the end
June 24
7 pm – Mayur Thakore, 9, and his brother go to funfair in Naroda
8 pm- Mayur’s brother returns home, while he stays back to watch Maut Ka Kuva stunt
8:30 pm – The boy dies after being electrocuted by live wire on the funfair ground.
9 pm –9.30 pm Organisers haul boy’s body onto a bike, and drive to Koba circle. Here, they shift it into a car.
Late in the night, the body is dumped at a toll booth in Palanpur
Parents want guilty punished
On Friday, several members of the Thakore community, including the boy’s father Balaji Thakore, gathered in Naroda to demand stringent action against the accused.
The police, along with family members of the boy, had gone to Palanpur civil hospital on Friday to take custody of the body following post-mortem.
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