Boy sodomised, body hanged from tree in UP’s Etah

In a shocking incident, an eight-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly sodomised and murdered in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district, reported The Times Of India. The body of the boy was found hanging from a tree on Monday morning. The incident is reportedly, a fallout of an old enmity.

The Etah police have managed to arrest a man who is in his late 20s on the basis of a complaint from the deceased’s father. The police have registered a case against the man and one other person who had given former a contract for executing the boy, under various sections of IPC and section 4 of the Protection Of Children From Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Deceased boy’s father alleged that when my son was playing outside the home, our neighbour Devendar, lured him with a pack of juice and took him to a grocery shop nearby from where he dragged him to a field and sodomised him before executing him.

While the police have arrested Devendar who allegedly executed the henious crime, other accused identified as Munna is absconding. According to police, Munna had given contract to Devendar to execute the boy since he and the boy’s family were locked in a long-standing enmity.

TOI quoted SHO, Nidhauli Kala police station, Deshveer Singh as saying that Devendar confessed to his crime after accepting a contract from Munna. Singh said that Devendar was yet to receive money from Munna. He also said that the boy was sodomised before being strangulated. The body was hung from a tree to depict it as a suicide.

Published on: May 22, 2018 at 10:35 IST

By EP Web Desk