Every Sunday, I used to enjoy my mid-day nap very likely. But it was disrupted on that day by mixture of resounding voices outside my house near to a school. Before, anyone realized, what would happen, a woman killed a nine-year old boy by silting his throat after quarrelling with the mother of the boy over just a few hundred rupees.
According to the police sources, two women engaged in a fistfight at a Trading Centre after the boy’s mother had failed to repay the money. It is further stated that when the fighting intensified, the boy’s mother fled with the other woman in pursuit.
She locked herself in a pit latrine, called her son and sent him to fetch a knife from their house. When the other woman heard that, she got hold of the boy and dragged him to her house where she slit his throat.
The suspect then emerged from her house, shouting that she had killed the boy and would kill the mother too. But the neighbours caught hold of that woman and called the police. Then the suspect had been arrested and the murder weapon recovered from the scene of the incident. She was charged with murder.
The boy, a standard one pupil at Shivalik Primary School, was taken to G.B.N. hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Though our resident people were affable and friendly, a sudden soreness led to this unwanted killing. This will be in my memory inerasable always ever crossing that place.
Vocabulary
Intensified—made or became intense
Quarrelling—wrangling
