Overview
- A missing-person report filed on June 16 prompted police to review CCTV that showed the boy get into a white car and to focus on known contacts, leading to the arrest of Arpit Sharma.
- Police say Sharma confessed to strangling the six-year-old because the child was an obstacle to an affair and led officers to Hastinapur forest where the body was recovered.
- Investigators arrested the boy’s mother, Gurpreet Kaur, after digital evidence and messages reportedly linked her to Sharma and suggested she knew the child had been taken.
- Authorities seized the vehicle and an alleged weapon and have sent phones and other devices for forensic examination aimed at recovering deleted chats and call records.
- The case has shocked the local community and will move through remand hearings and post-mortem and digital-forensics steps that police say are needed to confirm motive and full chronology.