<p> A seven-year-old boy, who was reportedly abducted two days ago, was found dead inside a desert cooler installed in a temple in northeast Delhi’s Gokulpuri area on Monday, police said.<br /><br />Body of Sahil Khan was discovered around 9 am on Monday after the local children came to take sweets at the temple as part of the ongoing Janmashtami celebrations and complained of a nauseating stench emanating from inside the temple. <br /><br />After noticing a body inside a desert cooler, the priests informed the police. “A decomposed body was recovered from a cooler installed in the premises. A rope was tied around his neck and blood stains were seen around his mouth,” said a senior police officer adding that the body has been sent for post-mortem.</p>.<p><br />“There were ligature marks around the neck that suggest that the child was throttled to death. The child had his clothes on in a proper manner. We are not ruling out the possibility of a sexual assault and things would be clear only after the post-mortem report,” said the officer.<br /><br />A case of murder has been registered at Gokulpuri police station and police are investigating the matter to nab the accused.<br /><br />The police checked the record to ascertain the body’s identity and found that seven-year-old Sahil Khan had been missing from the same area for the past two days and a police complaint was filed by the mother.<br /><br />“We called up Sana Khan who reported about her missing son. She identified the body is that of her son,” said the officer.<br /><br />On August 31, Sahil was believed to be playing outside his house in Gokulpuri in the afternoon when his mother failed to locate him.</p>
<p> A seven-year-old boy, who was reportedly abducted two days ago, was found dead inside a desert cooler installed in a temple in northeast Delhi’s Gokulpuri area on Monday, police said.<br /><br />Body of Sahil Khan was discovered around 9 am on Monday after the local children came to take sweets at the temple as part of the ongoing Janmashtami celebrations and complained of a nauseating stench emanating from inside the temple. <br /><br />After noticing a body inside a desert cooler, the priests informed the police. “A decomposed body was recovered from a cooler installed in the premises. A rope was tied around his neck and blood stains were seen around his mouth,” said a senior police officer adding that the body has been sent for post-mortem.</p>.<p><br />“There were ligature marks around the neck that suggest that the child was throttled to death. The child had his clothes on in a proper manner. We are not ruling out the possibility of a sexual assault and things would be clear only after the post-mortem report,” said the officer.<br /><br />A case of murder has been registered at Gokulpuri police station and police are investigating the matter to nab the accused.<br /><br />The police checked the record to ascertain the body’s identity and found that seven-year-old Sahil Khan had been missing from the same area for the past two days and a police complaint was filed by the mother.<br /><br />“We called up Sana Khan who reported about her missing son. She identified the body is that of her son,” said the officer.<br /><br />On August 31, Sahil was believed to be playing outside his house in Gokulpuri in the afternoon when his mother failed to locate him.</p>
