AGRA: Police in Etah district slapped prices of rioting and try and homicide on a 10-year-old boy amongst different provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) following a dispute over the set up of a water faucet.
Members of the family of the Class 6 pupil approached the Etah superintendent of police (SP), claiming the police registered the FIR with out conducting any main investigation and ignored the grievance filed by their facet.
Further superintendent of police (ASP) Rajkumar Singh mentioned the ages of the accused weren’t talked about within the grievance, and as a consequence of which the kid was named within the FIR. He mentioned the boy’s identify can be eliminated after additional investigation and directed the police station to make the required corrections.
Authorized consultants identified that as per the recently-enacted BNS, police are required to conduct a main probe in complaints associated to non-heinous crimes earlier than registering the FIR. On this case it appears, they mentioned that the police lodged the FIR with out conducting any fact-check.
The incident occurred in Jaithara city on Sept 17 when a battle broke out between two teams over the set up of a water faucet. Either side submitted written complaints to the police, asking for FIRs to be filed.
The boy’s household alleged that the police solely filed an FIR in opposition to one facet, naming the kid’s father and 7 others, together with 4 ladies, in it. The ten-year-old boy was charged beneath BNS sections 191 (rioting), 352 (intentional insult to impress breach of peace), 333 (house-trespass after preparation for harm, assault or wrongful restraint), 115(2) (voluntary inflicting harm), 76 (bodily assault or the usage of prison pressure in opposition to a girl), 351(3) (prison intimidation) and 109 (try and homicide).
