India

Hyd cops arrest minor for rape, murder of boy

Omer Farooq

In a shocking incident, pointing towards the increasing trend of sexual crimes among the minors, a 12-year-old boy was sodomised and killed by another minor in Hyderabad.

langar House police station in he city has arrested a 17-year-old boy on the charges of raping and murdering another boy Syed Aslam. Police inspector C Anjaiah said that the police solved the mystery within hours of the crime and took into custody four persons including the main suspect minor.

Victim's bartered body was found in a closed flour mill in langar House area by the local people. His father worried over disappearance of the boy a day earlier had gone to his school to inquire about him. On his way back when he saw a crowd of people at the flour mill he stopped to inquire only to discover the body of the boy. The ghastly sight left the father shell shocked.

Victim had only kurta on his body while his jeans pant in which he had left his home was missing. His head was smashed with a stone and there was a plastic pipe around his neck.

A wave of anger enveloped Khadar Bagh colony where the victim's family lived as people came out in the streets demanding stringent punishment to the culprits.

According to the police the perpetrator had sodomised once a few days ago and again forced him to come to the deserted place on Tuesday and committed the offence. When Aslam threatened to inform his father about the incident the offender attacked him with a stone and strangulated him.