LUDHIANA, June 9 -- The Doraha police have arrested a repeat offender for sodomising and strangling to death a 14-year-old differently abled boy, whose body was recovered from a pond in a forest area near Doraha on May 6.

The accused, identified as Mani Singh, 35, a resident of Mohalla Jaildar in Doraha, was apprehended from Bhawanigarh in Sangrur, where he was working as a labourer. He confessed to the crime during questioning, police said.

According to superintendent of police (detective) Pawanjit Chaudhary, the accused sodomised the boy before strangling him to death. "The accused took the boy from outside a gurdwara to the forest area on May 5, where he committed the crime and dumped his naked body in a pond, which was discovered th...