India, Sept. 7 -- Five minor students of a madrasa in Odisha's Nayagarh district were sent to a juvenile home for allegedly murdered their 12-year-old classmate after sexually abuse him for nearly a year, police said.

The deceased's body was found in an abandoned septic tank in the madrasa on September 3, two days after he went missing. "The body was discovered floating in around 1pm, alongside a dog's carcass," an officer said

The minor, who had been a boarder at the madrasa for about a year, went missing around 2pm on September 2, Nayagarh additional superintendent of police Subash Chandra Panda, who headed the investigation, said.

"The accused had been forcing unnatural sexual relations with the victim for nearly a year. When the vi...