Police on Monday recovered the bodies of two minor boys who went missing on Saturday afternoon from their Gwala Toli mohalla in industrial town Tandwa.

The recovery led to widespread anger in the area as locals suspected a pre planned murder. Hundreds of people gathered on the banks of the pond and demanded the arrest of the culprits.

The boys namely Sumit Kumar,7 and Vivek Kumar, 8, were students of Class two. The boys stepped out of their house to play in a field close to their mohalla. As they had to go for their tuition class but didn’t return back till 3pm on Saturday afternoon their parents started a search.

Their bodies were spotted in a pond.

Vivek Kumar was the son of Ramu Yadav, a health department employee and Sumit was the only son of mason Ishwar Yadav.

Superintendent of police Rishav Kumar Jha said police will solve the case soon. He said sub divisional police officer of Tandwa, Vikas Pandey has been given the responsibility to investigate the case. He said investigation will be done keeping all aspects in mind.

“We will wait for their postmortem report also,” said Jha.