The Delhi Police has apprehended a 16-year-old boy, who allegedly sexually assaulted a two-year-old child in Delhi’s Subhash Nagar area. Police said that the juvenile was apprehended from the railway station when he was trying to flee away.
According to a senior police official, a man, a resident of Subhash Nagar, reported that his two year-old son has been sexually assaulted by his domestic servant aged about 16 years.
“He alleged that the domestic servant took the child from her mother to the first floor and assured her that he will let him sleep. After that, the mother of the kid indulged in other household work. After 4-5 mintues, she went upstairs to see her son but found that the room was locked from inside and her son was crying,” said the senior police official.’
“She unlocked the door and found that the child had been sexually assaulted. When she confronted this to her domestic servant he ran away from there. She immediately took her child to the police and reported the whole incident. The child was immediately sent to DDU hospital for medical examination and consequently a case under section 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 6 Pocso Act,” he said.
“During investigation, it was revealed that the juvenile was working as a domestic servant for the last two and half years and he was a native of Bihar. Suspecting that he might try to leave the city, the police teams carried out intensive search and he was apprehended outside New Delhi Railway Station,” said the senior police official.