Una: The 37-day-old infant Harman Deep, who was allegedly snatched from his mother from Rakkar Colony near Una, was found dead. His body was recovered from a water channel, about 70 metres from their house, today.
The police have sent the body for the post-mortem examination at Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College in Tanda and registered a case against unknown persons. The infant’s mother Rajinder Kaur told the police that two masked men had kidnapped the child on Wednesday afternoon. The kidnappers snatched the child from her while she was sitting in the courtyard of her house.
The police and neighbours launched a search for the abductors and the child. A team of forensic experts, led by Dr Meenakshi Mahajan from the forensic lab situated in Dharamsala, visited the crime scene and collected the evidence.