An 8-year-old boy was stabbed to death and the defendant fled

A fourth-grade boy was allegedly stabbed to death with a kitchen knife, hit on the head with an iron rod and then smashed by a stone statue while studying in his room in West Bengal’s Adarsh ​​Nagar near Konagar on Friday night.

Chandernagore police chief Amit Kumar Javalji reportedly called the murder “extremely brutal” and said they had sealed the house and started investigating the case. times of india.

The victim’s father told police that the 8-year-old boy named Snehangshu Sharma was questioned while riding in a pool car last week. The report also quoted sources as saying police were questioning the driver of the pool cart the boy used to get to and from school.

While neighbors said the boy had a good nature and was unlikely to get into arguments with other children, criminologists involved in the case believe the boy’s motives may have been personal.

Sharma’s cousin was the first to discover that her brother was dead. She shouted loudly and with the help of neighbors, they rushed the boy to a private hospital in Uttapara, where he was declared dead, a neighbor told the daily.

One police officer said there were all kinds of questions about how a person could leave the scene “without being detected” if the murder had been carried out in such a way that “the murderer would have been splattered with blood”. toy. A five-member forensic team arrived at the crime scene on Saturday and collected the stone statue used to smash the eight-year-old’s head.

So far, the team has found no clues but has found all the weapons used to kill the fourth-grade boy. Locals suggested the murder may have occurred at 7pm when the boy was home alone.

“Such a horrific incident has never happened before,” said Pradhan Achhelal Yadav, a former Kanaipur panchayat member, adding that the area was once dominated by Huba Shah. controlled by thugs like Hubba Shyamal and Ramesh Mahato.