Kolkata: Two schoolboys killed inside moving car, bodies dumped in roadside ditch

The police have arrested four people in connection with the case, while two more,  including the main accused Satyendra Chowdhury, are yet to be nabbed.

The bodies were recovered after one of the arrested accused revealed that the boys had been killed soon after they were kidnapped on Aug 22.

The boys were strangled inside a moving car and then thrown in the ditch.

Atanu Dey and Abhishek Naskar were kidnapped from the Baguihati area of Kolkata.

Atanu's family members had received ransom calls, but, according to the police, the other victim, Abhishek, was killed only to eliminate evidence.

The motive for the kidnapping was to extort Rs. 50,000 to buy a bike, police said.

The families of the victims claim that the police have not been prompt in their investigation, which the police have denied.

"We had kept all possibilities open when we started our probe. In the meantime, they received ransom messages, but they could not establish contact with the kidnappers. Because ransom calls were being made, we were also very alert and were conducting the probe carefully to ensure there was no untoward incident," Biswajit Ghosh of Bidhannagar Police told the media.

The police also said they hadn't presumed that the boys had died until one of the arrested accused confessed to the murder.

"During our probe we got a breakthrough when we arrested Abhijit Bose. After Bose was interrogated, he broke down and confessed that on the 22nd, he along with Satyendra and two three others in the car and strangled the children on the Basanti Highway between 8 and 10pm. They admitted to dropping the two bodies at two different places ahead on the highway," Ghosh said.

Atanu and the main accused, Satyendra Chowdhury, whose home was vandalised on Tuesday by angry locals, were known to each other.