3 minors strangle 12-yr-old with cycle chain in MP, stuff body in polythene bag

Mangalore Today News Network

Bhopal, May 16, 2023: A 12-year-old boy was allegedly strangled with a cycle chain by three of his friends, the youngest of whom is 11 years old, in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district, police said. The victim’s head was smashed with a stone and his throat slit with a butcher knife.

The murder took place in Magarkatha village near Seoni on Sunday.

 

The three minors stuffed the 12-year-old’s body in a polythene bag and dumped it on a heap of pebbles near their house. Police learned of the crime when a woman discovered the blood-stained bag.

Barghat sub-divisional police officer (SDOP) Shashikant Sareyam said the 16-year-old accused attempted to talk to the sister of the 12-year-old boy. When the victim found out, there was an altercation between him and the accused. This caused the trigger for the gruesome murder.

The three minors were detained and produced in a court, which sent them to a correctional home for 14 days.

"The trio, aged 16, 14 and 11 respectively, including two brothers, called the 12-year-old boy to a deserted place in Magarkatha village, about 28 kilometres from the Seoni district headquarters, on Sunday," Barghat police station Inspector Prasanna Sharma told news agency PTI.

He said the trio, despite being minors, committed the crime like habitual killers.

"They planned the crime and called their 12-year-old friend to a secluded place. They caught hold of him and strangled him with a cycle chain. As the boy cried in pain, they smashed his head with a big stone, and slit his throat with a sharp knife, which is used for slaughtering goats," Sharma said.

The police officer further said the three boys stuffed the body in the polythene bag and dumped it on a pile of pebbles near their house and fled, in order to avoid alarming a woman living nearby.