Batala, Aug. 6 -- In a chilling breakthrough, 11 years after a 12-year-old boy disappeared from a village in Batala in 2014, police have solved the mystery, finding his remains in the courtyard of his own house, and arresting his mother and her accomplice for the murder.

The boy, Sandeep Singh, went missing in 2014 from Khojkipur village under Batala's Sri Hargobindpur police station. For over a decade, he could not be traced, until police tracked down his mother, Ranjit Kaur, to Jalandhar.

When grilled, Kaur reportedly confessed to having killed Sandeep with the help of her accomplice, Satnam Singh.

According to police, the duo murdered the child and buried his body in the courtyard of the woman's house. After the crime, they fled to ...