(CNN) — Two brothers formerly jailed for cannibalism and afterwards released, have been arrested again after military detected a child’s severed conduct during their home in a remote encampment in northwest Pakistan.

Mohammed Arif Ali was arrested early Monday after neighbors alerted military to a “foul smell” entrance from his residence in a encampment of Kahawar Khan in a Bhakkar district of Punjab, district military arch Ameer Abdullah Khan told CNN Tuesday.

When they went to investigate, they detected a decapitated conduct of an tot subsequent to a blazing stove. The head, that is now being examined during a sanatorium in a circuitously encampment of Darya Khan, looked to be around 5 days old, Abdullah said

Arif Ali was arrested during a scene, while his brother, Mohammed Farman Ali, was apprehended by military hours after on a hinterland of their village.

Police pronounced both group confessed to eating tellurian flesh.

The brothers were expelled from jail final year after portion a two-year jail tenure for identical offenses — they certified dismembering a woman’s physique they had stolen from a cemetery in Darya Khan where they lived during a time.

With no pithy law on cannibalism in Pakistan, a dual group were convicted of desecrating a passed physique and other open sequence offenses in a box that annoyed widespread denial opposite Pakistan, according to CNN associate Geo TV.