Teen detained for sodomizing, killing 6-yr-old
Dwaipayan Ghosh TNN
New Delhi: In yet another case of a minor being involved in a heinous crime, a 14-year-old boy has been detained for allegedly sodomizing and murdering a six-year-old. The shocking incident was reported from near the Inder weighing bridge off Sarai Kale Khan area on the banks of Yamuna.
According to the south-east district police, the accused, employed with a roadside hotel near the Sarai Kale Khan ISBT complex, had asked the sixyear-old victim to accompany him to the Yamuna banks off the DND flyway, on the pretext of collecting berries for him on Friday evening. The victim was the youngest among the four children of the hotel owner where the accused was presently employed.
‘‘The two boys reached a bush near Yamuna bank where the accused sodomized the six-yearold. When the victim threatened to spill the beans, the accused picked up a piece of cloth from the river bed and strangulated him. He then fled from the spot and joined the rescue parties looking for the boy,’’ said Shalini Singh, DCP, southeast.
According to chief investigator from the New Friends Colony police station, when the victim did not return to his house at Sunlight Colony on Friday night, his family members launched a massive search. ‘‘Initially, the victim’s father thought his son had drowned in the Yamuna and hence asked local boatsmen to look for him. Unable to find him, he lodged a kidnapping case on June 6 and the police recovered the victim’s mutilated body around 7 am on Sunday,’’ he told Times City.
‘‘Our teams visited the spot and the Sarai Kale Khan JJ clusters to investigate the case. The postmortem of the boy at AIIMS confirmed sodomy. We took some kids into confidence and finally detained the 14-year-old boy,’’ said DCP Singh.
Sources said a little girl revealed after she had asked the accused the whereabouts of the victim, he showed her the exact spot where the body was found. ‘‘He claimed he had divine powers to detect the movement of young children,’’ said a source. The police also came to know that the PCR call about the mutilated body was made by a weighing bridge owner at the instance of some ragpickers who in turn were informed of the body by the accused himself. ‘‘He confessed to the crime,’’ said Singh.
The accused was adopted by the victim’s father two years ago after he complained that his parents were ‘‘alcoholic’’ and ‘‘abused’’ him.
Source : Times of India, 9th June 09
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