Noida teen killed by 3 after his grandmother scolds them over their hookah use
A teenager in Noida was allegedly killed by three men, who police said forced him to smoke a hookah laced with excessive tobacco.
A 15-year-old boy in Noida's Jewar was allegedly killed by three men through asphyxiation after the boy's grandmother reprimanded them for introducing him to hookah and other bad habits, police said on Wednesday.
The Noida Police arrested three men allegedly involved in the murder of the boy whose body was recovered from an unoccupied house in Rohi village on May 22, a day after he went missing.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Rajeev Narain Mishra said the boy left home on May 21, and his family lodged a missing person complaint the next day after failing to trace him.
The same night, his body was found in an abandoned house near the village.
The three arrested were identified as Naresh and Mohit, residents of Rohi village, and Umesh Kumar from Champaran in Bihar.
Two of them were injured in an encounter with the police.
According to the police, the case was rooted in an acrimony that set in about one-and-a-half months ago, when the boy's grandmother confronted the accused at their place and scolded them for introducing the teenager to hookah and other bad habits.
The accused bore a grudge against the boy ever since, they said.
On May 21, when the boy visited their house, the accused allegedly made him smoke a hookah mixed with a high amount of tobacco, which led to his death. They then dumped his body in an abandoned house, the police said.
Two illegal country-made pistols and cartridges were recovered from the possession of the accused after the arrest. A motorcycle without a number plate was also seized.
The post-mortem report found no external injuries, and viscera samples were sent for chemical analysis to determine the exact cause of death, the police said.