A 12-year-old boy is fighting for his life at a hospital in India’s capital city after being allegedly gang-raped by three men, who also beat him up with bricks and inserted a rod into his private part, reports said.
The gruesome crime happened in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur area, the Delhi Commission for Women confirmed on Sunday, Sept. 25.
According to a statement from the DCW, the boy narrated his ordeal to his mother on Thursday, Sept. 22, four days after the alleged attack.
Delhi Police Deputy Commissioner Sanjay Sain said the alleged assault was carried out by three men – all minors and known to the victim – including a family relative.
"The three accused are from the same community, they were neighbors," Sain said, adding that two of the accused have been arrested.
However, the charges imposed on the accused men were unclear at the time of this writing.
According to the DCW, the boy was in "critical condition" and undergoing treatment at LNJP hospital after allegedly being assaulted with a rod and "brutally" beaten with bricks.
"The boy is not in a good state and may not make it," DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal told CNN.
"In Delhi, let alone girls, even boys are not safe. Our team registered an FIR in the matter," she tweeted.
According to the UN, India is currently facing a sexual harassment and rape crisis with an average of 86 cases reported every day.
LT reported a similar incident when a 36-year-old butcher was arrested last month for alleged kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl, whose body was found in a forest in Delhi, India's capital territory.
Rizwan alias Badshah, reportedly a drug addict, worked as a butcher at the meat market in the Tirkman Gate area of the central Indian city.
It was reported that Rizwan was a frequent visitor to the Yamuna Khadar forest area, where he spent his time tripping on weed.
The spot is not too far away from where a farmer lived with his wife and four children.
On the intervening night of Aug. 4-5, the farmer and his family had been sleeping at their home when he woke up at around 4 a.m. to find one of his daughters missing.
A missing case was registered and the police were searching for the 8-year-old girl, when on Aug. 18, investigators received a report of a child's lifeless body found in the nearby forest area.
Responding officers found and identified the missing girl's body which had multiple stab wounds, reports said.
An autopsy was conducted and the results shockingly revealed that the child was raped before she was murdered.
On the day of the tragic incident, Rizwan went to the forest area and smoked weed. He waited there until nightfall and for all members of the victim's family to fall asleep, the DCP said.
According to police, Rizwan entered the family's hut and kidnapped the minor girl. Then, he took her to an isolated location in the adjoining forest area and raped her.
"Thereafter, he slit her throat and mutilated her face," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Shweta Chauhan said.
Rizwan revealed that during the course of his visits to the Yamuna Khadar area, he had developed intimacy with the victim's mother and had befriended the minor girl, the DCP said.
He also claimed that he decided to eliminate the victim because she had seen him in an intimate situation with her mother.
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