Calcutta, April 27 :     Sumit Sharma, the boy who went out with his father and brother for their usual Sunday jaunt, today told police that a ?gandi (dirty) aunty? had tried to strangle him, according to deputy commissioner (detective department) Narayan Ghosh. Sumit?s father Manoj is still missing. Manoj, a businessman dealing in spare parts, told his wife Kusum that he would take the boys to Victoria Memorial and would return after having dinner. When they did not come home even after 11.30 pm, relatives panicked and went to search for them. In the early hours of Monday, they found the family?s Maruti 800 parked near the crossing of Park Street and Camac Street. Sumit?s eight-year-old brother Mudit was lying dead in the vehicle. Sumit was found wandering in Debra, Midnapore, by a highway patrol and was brought home last night. Ghosh said it is unlikely to be a case of kidnapping. ?We are yet to identify the woman, but are probing her relations with Manoj. The entire episode could be pre-planned,? he added. Ghosh said six-year-old Sumit recounted the sequence of events today. According to the boy, they left their home in CF Block in Salt Lake around 4.30 pm on Sunday. Thirty-three-year-old Manoj stopped at a petrol station in Topsia. Ghosh said the cash memo found in the car showed he had filled 16 litres of petrol. Sumit told the police that they went to Victoria Memorial where he and his brother played for a while. The boy said an ?aunty? wearing a salwar-kameez arrived and spoke to his father, who then took them for a pony ride. ?Sumit told me that the aunty was rude to him. He referred to her as gandi aunty. She also called Sumit ganda ladka. However, she managed to win the brothers over by giving them grapes and biscuits,? Ghosh said. According to Sumit?s version, Manoj bundled them into the car after the pony ride and drove towards Vidyasagar Setu. Sumit, who was sitting in the backseat, told Ghosh that just after they crossed the bridge he started feeling sleepy and slipped in and out of stupor. ?But the boy said whenever he awoke, he found ?gandi aunty? following them in a car. Sometimes she drove right next to them,? Ghosh said. The boy said he was jolted out of sleep when he felt someone?s hands around his neck. ?He looked up to see the woman. She tried to strangle him and then pushed him out of the Maruti, thinking he was dead,? Ghosh said. The boy blacked out at that point and does not recall what happened to his father and brother. Ghosh said some grapes and biscuits were found in the Maruti and samples have been sent for tests. ?We feel the boys were drugged,? the officer said. Sumit was reticent when he was handed over to Midnapore superintendent of police M.K. Singh before being brought to the city. Singh said the boy looked drugged and was incoherent. ?All he said was that he rode a pony. He could not remember how he came to Midnapore. The boy was asleep most of the time here,? Singh said over phone. Earlier in the day, Ghosh went to the Sharma house with a forensic expert to examine the ligature mark around Sumit?s neck. ?How many times do I have to show my neck?? the boy asked. Manoj?s father R.G. Sharma could barely speak today. ?I have lost my grandson,? was all he managed. R.L. Joshi, the Sharmas? lawyer, said Manoj had no enemies in business, nor had the family received any demand for ransom.