Transgender Arrested for 8-Yr-Old Boy’s Murder in Hyderabad; Family Suspects Human Sacrifice

Hyderabad: An eight-year-old boy was allegedly brutally murdered by a transgender in Hyderabad. His family suspected it to be a case of human sacrifice. But the police said they have no evidence of it.

The body of the victim named Abdul Wahid was found in a drain in Moosapet early Friday. He went missing on Thursday from his house in the Allauddin Koti area of Sanath Nagar of Hyderabad.

Police have arrested Imran, a transgender, and four others for the murder. The victim’s family ransacked his house claiming that the boy was murdered for human sacrifice.

But according to the police, the boy was murdered over a financial dispute between Imran and the boy’s father Waseem Khan. Transgender Imran has confessed to killing the boy and throwing the body in a drain.

The accused allegedly killed the boy by forcibly dipping his head in a bucket filled with water. After confirming the child had died, Imran, with the help of an auto-rickshaw driver threw the body in the drain.