In a seemingly bizarre incident, two children, aged 5 and 7, hacked a hardened criminal to death in Pilibhit district and then marched to the nearby police station to confess their crime. This incident took place on Sunday evening in Piparaiya village. The boys were playing in the orchard where their father works as a guard.
The children apparently saw the criminal, Mahendra, and thought he was there to steal the fruits in the orchard. The boys, according to reports, asked Mahendra to leave the orchard or else they would call their father. Mahendra did not take the call seriously and the boys, it seems, picked up a sickles lying nearby and attacked the criminal. They kept attacking until Mahendra slumped to the ground. The boys, in their blood soaked clothes, went to the police station and innocently told the cops, “Humne Mahendra ko maar dala (We killed Mahendra).”
Initially, the cops presumed that the boys were joking but after some time when other villagers confirmed the incident, they decided go to the site of the incident where they found the body of Mahendra.
“It sounds unbelievable that such young boys, who cannot even express themselves clearly, could kill such a hardcore criminal. It seems that Mahendra was intoxicated and could not retaliate since it seems impossible that the boys would kill a grown up man with such force that he dies on the spot,” said a senior police official. The boys are too young to be kept in juvenile home and it is the court that will decide the case.