A 12-year-old boy was brutally assaulted by a group of three men who dragged him up the stairs and then assaulted him with pipes and even slit his skin using a hot knife in Shakarpur on Sunday evening. According to the boy’s family, he was sodomised as well but his medical examination has ruled it out.
According to a senior police official, the accused have been arrested and identified as Achit Kumar, Sikandar Kumar and Zamir Anwar, who are the victim’s neighbour. The boy’s widow mother claimed that she was being pressurised by their landlord, who is her neighbour, to withdraw the case.
The incident happened around 6 pm when a kite the boy was flying snapped and landed at the three-storey building where the three accused live in a rented room on the terrace. But in doing so, he landed straight into trouble as the three men arrived there and confronted him. The three accused are in their twenties and were studying.
His mother said that her son did nothing to provoke them but they started bullying and troubling him.
“He told me that they took him to their terrace room, pushing and dragging him along the stairs on their way up. Once there, they used a pipe to land repeated blows on his body,” said the crying mother attending to her injured son at lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital here. The boy’s family further said that the three accused took the victim in a dingy room and assaulted him there after which they kept him locked in the room for four hours.
The victim’s mother added that the boy even claimed to have been sexually assaulted and there were injuries on his private parts. Deep cuts are visible on his body in the pictures shared by the family narrating the brutalality of the assault. The boy told police that a knife was heated before inflicting those injuries.
Even as the torture was on, the worried mother started looking frantically for the child but to no avail. Four hours later, the accused left him to his home and threatened the mother against going to police. The woman’s husband died a few years ago and the victim is her only son.
later in the evening, the family and others blocked parts of Vikas Marg citing police inaction and lack of cooperation.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Rishi Pal said a case of assault and abduction has been registered against the three men, all of whom have been arrested. He said provisions of Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act have also been slapped in the case. Further investigations in the matter is on.