MEERUT: A five-year-old boy was allegedly gang-raped by two males in Hapur on Sept 19 and the crime got here to the fore after native police registered a case following a grievance by the kid’s grandfather. A video clip purportedly of the survivor being violated by the perpetrators was additionally broadly circulated on the web, police stated.
Hapur metropolis’s circle officer Jitendra Sharma advised TOI: “The accused — Arsh, Junaid, Mobin and Shamim (solely first names accessible in FIR) are from the identical locality.Following a grievance filed by the boy’s household, police have lodged an FIR underneath BNS sections 140-4 (kidnapping), 351-2 (felony intimidation) and 352 (intentional insult), and sections 5 (m) and 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Pocso Act towards the 4 accused.”
The CO added: “The boy’s assertion has been recorded, during which he testified that he was brutally violated. All 4 accused are on the run and efforts are on to apprehend them.”
In his grievance at Babugarh police station, the boy’s grandfather stated, “On Sept 19, round 3am, Junaid lured my 5-year-old grandson from dwelling and took him to a secluded place the place he violated him. Others additionally joined him. Two different males, who had been passing by, shot the act and later uploaded the clip on social media. On Sept 26, when the kid’s situation worsened and he felt insufferable ache, he narrated his ordeal to me.”
The boy’s household additional talked about that after they went to the accused’s home to confront them concerning the crime, the latter “abused and threatened them with dire penalties”. Police are additionally looking for out whether or not there was any previous enmity among the many households.
