Police said that an eight-year-old boy, a Class I student, son of a migrant labourer couple in Rajkot, who went missing on Thursday, was found dead early Saturday. The child is suspected to have been killed by a neighbour in a sodomy case. The victim preferred to sleep at the neighbour's home which has a fan, instead at the construction site in Rajkot where his family has been staying for the past two years. So, the accused allegedly took advantage of this. Bhaktinagar police inspector V K Gadhvi said that they have arrested one Bittu Bhaiver, a 34-year-old man who runs a small shoe shop. The construction site where the boy’s family worked is located adjacent to his house. He had admitted to have choked the boy to death.The police suspect Bhaiver sodomised the boy, but are waiting for the post-mortem report. From the post-mortem report they would be able to ascertain if the boy was sodomised, the officer added. A missing person complaint had been registered by his parents, who hail from Madhya Pradesh’s Jambuwa, on Thursday. The examination of CCTV footage from cameras installed around the construction site where the victim’s parents work showed the accused taking the the boy to his home on Thursday. He is suspected to have killed him the same day. The police said that the accused pretended to help the family in searching for the boy after dumping the body. Police investigation has also brought out that other boys from the neighbourhood also used to sleep in the accused’s one-room house for the same reason.