Teenager kidnapped, killed for Rs.50,000

By Indo Asian News Service

Pune, April 1 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a teenager was killed by three of his friends after they asked for a ransom of Rs.50,000 which his father could not pay, police said Sunday.
Shubham Shirke, 15, went to meet his friends Saturday afternoon, police officer Motichand Rathod told IANS.
According to his grandmother, one of his friends had invited him. 'When he didn't return till late night, his father registered a complaint of kidnapping,' Rathod said.
Shubham's father got ransom calls asking for Rs.50,000 in cash. He managed to collect Rs.15,000 and rushed to the spot as instructed, Rathod said.
According to police, the boys kept calling Shubham's father for more money. But police later found out that Shubham had been killed between 2 and 3 p.m. Saturday itself.
The three killers, aged 15, 16 and 19, have been arrested. They confessed to strangling Shubham with a belt, Rathod said.
They said 19-year-old Amit Nair had come with another accused on a bike to collect the ransom money.
Rathod said the boys were carried out the crime after seeing a show on television.

The above is another effect of regularly reporting of crimes on TV.
On the one hand it gives young minds new methods of committing crime.
The police then go on clarifying how they have caught the criminals thus giving them ideas how they can avoid being caught.
Why can't the police just go about doing their duty instead of giving a ball by ball account of how they caught the criminals.
This forewarns future criminals on how to avoid the same mistakes in yet to be committed crimes.