India, May 3 -- A 9-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead on Friday night when he refused to fetch water demanded by a man who was having liquor during a ceremony organised at a house in Kasganj district.

The accused absconded from the spot but was later arrested and identified as Dhanesh Yadav, who has been booked at the Sahwar police station of Kasganj district. The boy died at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of AMU, Aligarh on Saturday and the accused was arrested soon after.

Govind Vallabh Sharma, the in-charge of the Sahawar police station, informed that Sukhveer Singh, father of the deceased boy Yashpal, had complained that the accused Dhanesh Yadav had asked his son Yashpal for water he required for having liquor during a ceremon...