Madhya Pradesh Horror: Three boys kill 12-year-old friend to death by strangling him with cycle chain

Three minor boys allegedly strangled their 12-year-old friend with a cycle chain, smashed his head with a stone, and slit his throat with a sharp knife in a village in the Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh.

MP Police on Monday said that they came to know about the crime when a passerby woman spotted a bag with blood spilled over the road and informed them. Boys have stuffed the dead body in a polythene bag and dumped it on a pile of pebbles near their house.

"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 km from the Seoni district headquarters, on Sunday," Barghat police station Inspector Prasanna Sharma told PTI.


He said the three boys executed the murder like habitual killers.

Police suspect an old dispute as the trigger behind the brutal murder. The three boys have been detained and produced in court which sent them to a correctional home for 14 days.

"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 PTI.

He said further investigation is underway.