Chaibasa (Jharkhand), May 23 (PTI) A 30-year-old man was arrested on Friday for killing a 12-year-old boy by slitting his throat over a long-standing feud regarding a parcel of land in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, police said.

The incident took place in Jugidaru village in Mufassil police station area and the accused, Chandramohan Baan Singh, was a neighbour and relative of the deceased, identified as Arjun Baan Singh, a police officer said.

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On Thursday evening, Chandramohan, holding a knife, barged into the house of the deceased and slit the throat of Arjun, who died on the spot due to excessive bleeding, Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Shekhar said in a statement.

Arjun was killed in front of his nine-year-old sister Anita Baan Singh, who narrated the incident to their parents when they returned from the weekly 'haat' (market), he said.

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Arjun's father Sinkur Baan Singh told the police that he and his wife were in Badalagia Haat when the incident happened.

The families frequently quarrelled over a parcel of land.

A police team nabbed the accused from his house on Friday and seized the knife used in the crime, the SP said.

A case has been registered under sections of the BNS and he was forwarded to judicial custody.

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