The body of the child was found in Handiya area on Sunday.

Two people have been arrested in this connection, one of whom is a neighbor of the victim.

Police said they confessed to kidnapping and killing the boy for ransom.

Ansh, son of ITI employee Anmol Kumar, went missing on Friday evening. After the family failed to find her, her mother Jyoti lodged an FIR for kidnapping at Kydganj police station.

Based on some CCTV footage, the police took their neighbor Pammi and her friend Shani into custody. Following his confession, the police recovered Ansh's body from a deserted place in Handiya area on Sunday. The dead body has been sent for post-mortem.

ACP Rajiv Yadav said that two people have been arrested in this connection. One of the accused, Pammi, is a neighbor of the victim while Shani is a resident of Sarai Mamrez area.

Preliminary interrogation of them indicated that they had kidnapped the boy for ransom, however, they murdered him and threw his body in a handiya as they feared that he might be caught. AC said that both are being interrogated further in this regard.