Hoshiarpur, Sept. 11 -- A five-year-old boy, who had gone missing yesterday, was found murdered on Wednesday at the cremation ground in Purhiran on the outskirts of the city, police said.

Boy had gone to pay obeisance at a gurdwara near his house on Tuesday evening but had not returned home.

The child's parents lodged a complaint with the police, who launched a search operation. The accused was nabbed around midnight, but the child could not be traced. In the morning, his body was found lying in the cremation ground. The family earlier lived in Phagwara and had migrated to Hoshiarpur about two months ago.

Senior superintendent of police Sandeep Kumar Malik said that CCTV footage showed the accused taking away the child on a two-wheeler...