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The ‘attacker’ reportedly used the household knife from his flat to commit the murder.
A senior officer from Govindpuri police station said the two children were playing throwball in the corridor of their second floor flats last evening when the incident occurred.
Calling it a “very strange case”, a senior officer said: “The sequence of events is still unclear. From what we could stitch together, the deceased, Miraj, threw the ball down the stairs that enraged the accused. They apparently had an argument over who should go down and get the ball.”
Amid the row, the officer said, the accused allegedly pushed Miraj inside his single-room flat and pointed a kitchen knife at him. The police suspect he got enraged further when Miraj did not feel threatened, as the boy had expected.
He then allegedly slit the six-year-old’s throat.
The accused boy’s mother had gone out to buy grocery and his father was at work at the time, the police said.
Miraj’s uncle Saddam Hussein said the family rushed in to see what happened after some neighbors began screaming in fright. “We found Miraj’s body on the floor — there was blood all over,” Hussein said.
Doctors at nearby Majidia Hospital declared him dead on arrival.
An FIR was registered at Govindpuri police station and the alleged attacker was taken to a juvenile justice home.
Both families live in single-room rented flats in RZ Block of Tughlakabad Extension. Miraj was a Class-I student of Ganga Memorial School.
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Stop TV and you can reduce these incidence.
Slitting of Throat is a general custom in Islam - id ul zuha / halal. That is where the kid learnt it. Bakrid was in January hence the event was fresh in the kid's mind. Islam desperately needs reforms.
According to the investigating officer, the two boys were playing inside a room late on Sunday evening. "It is the room where Karan shared with his paternal aunt Kamlesh and uncle Ramesh. Around 9 pm, Miraz accidentally threw the ball out of the window. Karan asked him to go down and retrieve it immediately. When Miraz refused, an argument started. Soon the boys were fighting in earnest. An enraged Karan picked an old rusted handle-less knife lying in the room and stabbed Miraz on the left side of his neck, just below the ear, leaving the child bleeding profusely,'' said a police official.