New Delhi, Oct 26: An eight-year-old student of a madrasa died after being attacked allegedly by a group of minor boys in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar.
The incident occurred on Thursday morning when the students objected to a few local boys playing and creating noise in front of the madrasa.
The local boys insisted on playing since they claimed there was no other vacant place nearby. A scuffle broke in which the student sustained an internal injury on his head, said Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South).
He was rushed to a hospital where he was declared brought dead, he added.
The boy was a native of Mewat in Haryana and his parents have been informed, Kumar said.
He said the body has been sent for post-mortem and a case under appropriate sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered.
Four minor boys, who are suspected to have been involved in the incident, have been apprehended, police said, adding an investigation is underway.
Even though the police claimed it was a scuffle between two groups, locals spoke of long standing tension in the area with the madarsa boys being increasingly targeted by locals.
The madarsa teachers said that they have been attacked in the past as well by persons living around the madarsa. Liquor bottles have been thrown into the madarsa compound and there has been a history of harassment and abuse over recent years. A couple of the madarsa teachers said that while Azeem was struggling to breathe a woman who was there said that more such cases would take place. She was not identified.
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