Missing minor boy found dead in AP; uncle's hand suspected

A five-year-old lower KG student, who had gone missing since last evening was today found murdered at Narsingi area on the city outskirts, even as police picked up his maternal uncle for questioning.
The partially burnt body of Yashraj Kumar, was found near a tank in Narsingi police station limits after some locals who spotted the body informed the cops this morning, they said.
Narsingi police, which booked a murder case and started probe found in initial investigations that Kumar was lured by his maternal uncle Vinod who offered him some chocolates and chips and took the boy along with him last evening after he returned to his house at Mangalhat here from school, a senior police officer said.

When Kumar was not seen, his parents approached the Mangalhat police who initially registered a case of missing person.
Now, police is quizzing Vinod, who has emerged as the prime suspect behind the killing.