Days after the two brothers were brutally hacked to death by a barber named Sajid in Uttar Pradesh's Budaun, the mother of the children killed on Thursday demanded that the authorities question the second accused in front of the family so that they could ask him, "WHY did they kill the two boys mercilessly?"
Narrating the sequence of events, the mother of the two minors told the news agency ANI: "He (Sajid) came to my home and asked me for Rs 5000. After I gave him the money, he went upstairs where my sons were playing. Then, he mercilessly killed my sons. I want justice. Questioning should be done in front of us."
On Tuesday, a barber named Sajid allegedly hacked to death two children from the neighbourhood and critically injured another. The barber was later killed by police. The other accused in the case, Javed, fled.
Earlier today, Uttar Pradesh police arrested the second accused, the brother of slain killer Sajid, in Bareilly.
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The devastated mother of the two brothers killed on Tuesday stated, "He asked for water. My son went to offer him a glass of water. He noticed two of my sons playing with an electric car upstairs, so he went upstairs and killed them," she explained.
"I don't know why he killed my children. I need to know why. The questioning should take place in front of us so that we can understand why they would kill our innocent children. We need to know if someone approached him intending to kill our children or if they did so for another reason," she continued.
"We just knew Sajid as a barber, we had no enmity with him. Not in our knowledge that we have ever done anything wrong to him. He had taken money from us. We did not deny to give him money. He could have asked for more money, I would have given but he only asked for five thousand. Why did he kill my children," the mother of the boys killed asked.