Meerut, March 17 -- In a gruesome incident, a 16-year-old boy was abducted and murdered over a long-standing rivalry in Bithara village, under the Nyoria police station area of Pilibhit. His body, dismembered into six pieces, was found stuffed in a sack under a bridge on Friday. Police arrested all three accused on Saturday and recovered the weapon used in the crime-a banka (a sharp-edged weapon)-along with the motorcycle they had used. The accused have been sent to jail.

According to police, the victim, Puranlal alias Sagar (16), son of Ram Bahadur, had stepped out of his home around 11 pm on March 10 to check on his father, who was sleeping in a nearby hut. However, he never returned. His family lodged a missing complaint at Nyoria pol...