The courtroom additionally imposed a high-quality of Rs 7,000 on the accused. (Representational)

Thane: A courtroom in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Saturday sentenced a person to imprisonment for all times for kidnapping and killing a seven-year-old boy and burying his physique.

Further periods decide RR Vaishnav convicted Santosh Sharma (30), a painter from Mumbra, underneath sections 302 (homicide) and 363 (kidnapping) of the IPC and sentenced him to imprisonment for all times.

The courtroom additionally imposed a high-quality of Rs 7,000 on the accused.

District authorities pleader and public prosecutor Sanjay Londhe informed the courtroom that on November 11, 2016, the sufferer, who was taking part in close to his home, went lacking.

A lacking particular person’s report was filed with the police and the probe revealed that the accused had kidnapped the boy, taken him to an remoted home, the place he strangled him and bludgeoned him with a stone.

The accused then buried the sufferer’s physique on the ground of the home.

The police subsequently recovered the physique and arrested the accused.

The accused was having an affair with the sufferer’s mom, which is why he wished to eliminate him, the courtroom was knowledgeable.

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