India, March 7 -- The Sahibabad police on Thursday took into custody two minor boys who allegedly planned and murdered their 13-year-old friend allegedly over his friendship with a girl known to them, senior police officers said.

Explaining the motive for the murder, police said the deceased boy was friendly with the girl who later became close to the prime suspect.He asked the deceased to snap ties with the girl but he refused. Senior officers said the prime suspect and his accomplice lured the victim to the eighth floor of a vacant high-rise and stabbed him to death with a knife on Monday afternoon and disfigured his face with a stone to conceal his identity.

Police said the prime suspect is aged 15 years and is a student of Class 10 ...