Street Justice Given To A Man Who Beheaded 5-Year-Old Boy

Warning: This article is not for the faint of heart. It describes the grizzly crime perpetrated against a minor.

A mob of regular citizens in the town of Assam, India, took it upon themselves to deliver their own brand of justice to a child murderer. Nanu Mirdha reportedly got into an altercation with one of his neighbors. Mirdha then did the unthinkable: He dragged the neighbors 5-year-old boy, Sanatan Bagh, and beheaded him with a machete.

When the word spread about what had happened, a mob of angry people hunted Mirdha down. They caught up with him, hung him from a tree, and beat him to death. The police are looking for those responsible for the lynching, but no one is willing to come forward to turn anyone in.

It was reported by the Daily Mail that Mirdha was a sorcerer, and he was sacrificing the boy to the Hindu god, Kali, the goddess of death. However, Sonitpur Superintendent of Police Sanjukta Parasor says otherwise.

“We have no such report. Preliminary investigations said that Nanu Mirdha was a reformed drunkard who had started concentrating in spiritual activities. Nanu had reportedly picked up an argument with his neighbour, and after sometime caught hold of his son Sanatan and dragged him to his house in the same labour line. A few minutes later he took a dao and chopped off the boy’s head.”

Whether it was a sacrifice or the result of an argument that spiraled out of control, the citizens of Assam made sure that Mirdha would never have an opportunity to hurt another person. Police are reviewing footage taken of the lynching to identify the responsible parties.

This is not the first time a community has come together to eliminate a dangerous person from their town.

Back in 1981 in Skidmore, Missouri, a town bully named Ken McElroy, who had been terrorizing people for years, was gunned down in the middle of the afternoon. There were 45 witnesses to the killing, but to this day, no one has been prosecuted for the crime. The incident was made into a book, In Broad Daylight. It was later made into a movie with the same title. The New York Times revisited the story 30 years later, and it is available here.

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