Following a criminal case in the Puri Town police station on July 11 linking to a midnight confrontation between a servitor’s family and a gang of five armed youths, an eight-year-old schoolboy is now an accused of charges like sexual assault on women and an attempt to murder.
As any as 11 Sections of IPC including 307, 354 and 354B and Arms Act 25 of 1959 have been lodged against the minor.
Though the Town police have not yet initiated any action against him after 10 days of incident by making the kid to play and roam freely with his friends due to closure of schools, however, the incident has raised eyebrows as the sections slapped against him could land him in jail for 7 years.
But, the boy was completely immersed in his game like the other day and said he was too little to kill them. Not only he, his three brothers who are of about 12 years and reading in the same school, have been accused of the same crimes.
The accused 8-year- old boy was identified as Chiku Mahasuar of a servitor family, accused No 5 among his 14 members.
The case dates back to July 11, 10.30 pm, when five youths armed with pistol entered the house of a servitor in Madanmohan Lane of Baliapanda area. Addicted with drugs, the youths barged into the house and threatened the family members to kill them unless they pay Rs 1 lakh each. Then it led to arguments with tussle and ultimately physical attacks after which the main accused was trapped with others four slipping away in the dark.
Police arrested the youth in injured conditions, who hails from Modan Mohan lane here also. Complaints have been registered from both servitor’s family and mother of the accused against each others.