In a chilling incident, two men chopped off the neck of a six-year-old boy in South Delhi’s Lodhi Colony on Saturday late at night. The incident occurred at the under-construction Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) headquarters when the accused admitted that they slit the child’s throat to please Bhole Baba on the sixth day of Durga Puja.

Chandan Choudhary, South Delhi’s deputy commissioner of police, said at around 12:40 am they received a call from the security in charge of the under-construction building. She said the local police immediately reached the spot and arrested the accused with the help of site workers and CRPF personnel.

During interrogation, it was found that the child was the son of one of the labourers working at the site. The accused have been identified as 23-year-old Vijay Kumar of Bihar’s Katihar and 21-year-old Aman Kumar of Bihar’s Saharsa. When arrested, one of the accused said that he had a vision that Bhole Baba wanted them to slit the child’s throat.

The official said they used to work at the same construction site as cement cutters and used to smack and consume ganja regularly. The victim’s parents are natives of Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly. Because the victim’s parents and the accused used to work at the same site, they were familiar with each other and there was no enmity between them.

Choudhary said the child was going to his shed at around 10:30 pm when the accused called him to their cooking space. The boy knew them, so when he went to the kitchen, they killed the child with the weapon.

The victim’s parents further claimed that both of the accused had been frequently telling the workers stories about how offering live creatures to Bhole Baba and Goddess Durga could cause miracles.

The victim’s father said none of the workers paid any heed to their pointless gossip because they used to constantly be high on ganja and bhang. He said he never once thought that these drug addicts would kill his child one day.

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