Rampara, Assam: A five-year-old boy was beheaded at a tea garden in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Wednesday evening.
The accused, a man is his mid-thirties named Nanu Mirdha, allegedly lured the child to his house in the Tarajuli Tea Estate in Ramapara area of Sonitpur, and beheaded him.
When locals found about the incident, they dragged the accused out of his house and lynched him, the police said.
Police said it could be a case of child sacrifice as some idols of gods and goddesses and other religious material were recovered from the place where the boy’s body was found.
Locals have alleged the accused was a tantrik.
However, police also said the accused had a running dispute with the father of the child. The two men stayed just three to four houses away.
