Sherpur: The body of an 8-year old schoolboy who was kidnapped six days ago was recovered from a hillock near Madhutila Eco Park at Nalitabari upazila in Sherpur on Saturday.

The victim is Arafat Islam Rahat, a class I student of Biplap-Lopa Memorial Girls School and son of Shahidul Islam Khokon of Gridanarayanpur area of Sherpur.

Sherpur Senior assistant superintendant of police M Shahjahan Miah said Rahat’s maternal uncle Abdul Latif and his associates abducted Rahat from in front of his house on 2 August.

The kidnappers later demanded Tk 2 lakh from his family as ransom over mobile phone.

Tipped off, a police team arrested three kidnapers –Rahat’s maternal uncle Abdul Latif, two other people Robin Miah and Imran Hasan–from different places of the upazila on 4 August.

According to the information of the arrestees, police arrested another kidnapper, Aslam Miah from the district town this morning.

On the basis of the information given by Aslam, police recovered Rahat’s decomposed body from the hillock at about 12:00pm.

Aslam confessed to police that as per the directive of Latif he along with his associates kidnapped Rahat for ransom and strangled him to death on the hillock, Shahjahan Miah said.