Delhi, Oct 26 (TOI): Four minors, aged between 10-12 years, were apprehended after the death of an eight-year-old boy at the Begumpur village near Malviya Nagar in Delhi on Thursday. Police said that they were informed about the incident around 6pm when the child succumbed to his injuries at a hospital. The child’s family members who stay at a village in Haryana have been informed about the incident.

DCP (south) Vijay Kumar said the incident happened around 10am, when the deceased child, Azeem, a student of the Dar ul Uloom Faridiya, got into a scuffle with the other children over playing at a vacant plot of land near a madrassa. The accused children were from the nearby areas.

Locals told the cops that Azeem and a group of students from the madrassa were playing cricket at the ground when the accused children asked them to move to one side. When they refused, the children got into a scuffle during which one of them pushed Azeem to the ground where he fell unconscious.

Seeing this, the others ran back to the madrassa to informed the clerics about the incident and Azeem was rushed to a private hospital where doctors admitted him to the intensive care unit. He was declared dead on Thursday evening.