Ludhiana: Four-year-old boy dies after being thrown in sewer by farmer over playing on his filed
Ludhiana, Jan 5: A four-year-old boy died after allegedly being thrown into a sewer by a farmer in Machhiwara, about 40 km from here, police said on Thursday.
The farmer named Babu Lal was allegedly upset with the children playing and flying kites in his fields, Inspector Davinder Pal Singh, SHO Machhiwara police station, said.
For the past few days, some children of a nearby colony used to come to his field to pick up kites that had fallen there and play afterwards, damaging the farmer's crops, he said.
On Wednesday evening when the children came to pick up a kite, Lal, who is originally from Uttar Pradesh, was already standing in the field with a stick.
As soon as the children entered the field he ran after them. Except for one Anshu, the rest of the children managed to escape from the man.
After catching hold of the minor, Lal allegedly threw him into a nearby gutter, he said.
Police arrested the man and charged him with murder and handed over the child's body to the family after a post-mortem examination.
Geeta Devi, the mother of the deceased said the police should get justice for his family and that can be achieved only when the murderer of her innocent son is hanged.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
