Seven-year-old sodomised in Burari, one arrested

NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by a barber in Burari in outer Delhi. Police said locals caught the barber, Mansingh, 25, red-handed when

NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by a barber in Burari in outer Delhi. Police said locals caught the barber, Mansingh, 25, red-handed when they broke into his shop on Friday night.

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The boy, a resident of Jharoda village, had left his house around 7pm. He had reportedly told his grandfather that he was going to the local salon to get a haircut.

Police said when the teenager did not return after 2-3 hours, his relatives searched for him. When they reached the salon, they broke open the door, suspecting the boy was inside and caught Pappu. He was thrashed and later handed over to the police.

Police have registered a case under section 377 for unnatural sex. Meanwhile, in Kirari in outer Delhi, hundreds of residents took to the streets to protest the murder of a seven-year-old child, whose body was found on Friday.

Locals had found the body of the child with his limbs tied and throat slit. Police suspect the child was sexually assaulted before being dumped outside a government school in the Kirari market.

Protesters alleged the boy’s killers had inserted objects in his private parts and throat. Local Congress leader Pratyush Kanth, who led the protest march, said a police station should be set up in the area and CCTVs installed, as promised by the Delhi government.

Kanth said,” For almost two years, we have been demanding that a police station be set up here. Kirari is the only assembly constituency in Delhi that does not have a police station.

“We only have a police chowki with a very small police force that can’t maintain law and order in the area. More than 6,000 FIRs are filed in this police chowki, much more than those filed in police stations of Delhi,” said Kanth.