NEW DELHI: Delhi’s short fuse has come to the fore again. Two brothers have been arrested for killing a four-year-old child in east Delhi’s Geeta Colony . The child’s fault was scratching the counter of a bakery shop with a stone.

Furious, the owner of the bakery shop thrashed the child and locked him inside a room to teach him a lesson. The four-year-old succumbed to his injuries inside that room.

A day after Faizan (4) went missing from outside the house on Wednesday, his body was found dumped inside a gunny bag in an abandoned area near Geeta Colony. His father, Rahees Ahmed, is a vegetable vendor and had moved to the locality six months ago.

During investigations, it was found that the child was last seen near a bakery. The bakery shop owners, Mohd Iliyas and Mohd Ikrar, were apprehended by the police for questioning.

“A team led by inspector Manoj Pant (special staff) and inspector Ranvir Singh, SHO (Geeta Colony) initiated the local enquiry and technical surveillance. They zeroed down the history of all the criminals in the area and interrogated the suspects. More than 200 people were interrogated. The culprits broke down during the interrogation and confessed to the crime,” said Ajay Kumar, DCP (east).

During interrogation, the owner of the bakery shop, Mohd llyas, told that he slapped the child brutally just because he was scratching the counter of his bakery shop with a stone, said a senior police officer. He along with his co-partner, Ikrar, thrashed the child so hard that he became unconscious and got serious head injuries, police said.

Ilyas locked the child inside the rack of the counter and closed it to teach him a lesson due to which the child succumbed to injuries, said a senior police officer.

When Ilyas noticed that the child had died inside their shop, he thought of dumping it at an abandoned area to evade police. He took the help of his younger brother, Ikrar, to dump the body.

They put the child’s body inside a gunny bag and waited till morning to put it behind a car, so that no one notices it, police said. But their act of dragging the gunny bag was captured in the CCTV camera installed at a nearby residential apartment.

To destroy the evidence they sold the counter to some other person, police said. The cops have recovered the sold bakery counter and the vehicle used by the brothers to dump the child.

Read this in Hindi: काउंटर पर पत्थर घिसा तो मासूम का मर्डर

