Row over ball makes 8-yr-old kill 6-yr-old

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.