RAWALPINDI, June 10: A 10-year-old schoolboy kidnapped for Rs10 million ransom from Banni area on Friday was found strangled in Islamabad on Saturday, police said.

Mudassar Azam, the son of trader Mohammad Azam living in Banni Mohalla, went missing after leaving his house on Friday.

Later the parents of the boy received a telephone call in which the kidnappers said the boy was in their captivity, and demanded Rs10 million for his safe release.

Shortly after the class-III student went missing, the Banni police were informed by his parents. An FIR was registered by the police and then sealed.

Mohammad Azam, the father of the boy, told the police that he got another telephone call early Saturday morning in which the kidnappers negotiated the ransom money and settled it on Rs2.5 million.

On Saturday, the Islamabad police informed the Pindi police that they had found the body of a boy who seemed to be the one being searched by the police.

The parents of the boy accompanied by the Banni police went to Islamabad and identified the body.

The body was spotted by some passersby lying in the green area of the Golra police station.

According to initial postmortem report, the boy had been strangled. The police suspected that a close relative of the boy could be involved in the crime. However, nobody has been arrested so far.