The 17-year-old boy from Chhattisgarh, who was apprehended final week for issuing a bomb menace to a few worldwide flights, was allegedly sexually assaulted by one other minor inmate at a toddler correction house in Mumbai on Monday.
The Mumbai police mentioned they registered a toddler intercourse abuse case on the Dongri police station.
Police sources mentioned the Chhattisgarh boy was attacked by a 16-year-old when he went to the toilet of his barrack. After the matter got here to gentle, authorities on the house knowledgeable the Dongri police station and a case beneath sections 4, 8, and 12 of the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act was filed in opposition to the 16-year-old boy.
Authorities on the kids’s house additionally launched an inquiry to seek out out in regards to the safety lapses, one other supply mentioned.
The sufferer, a Class 11 scholar, was dropped at the kid correction house final week after he was apprehended by the Sahar police for his alleged position in posting messages on social media concerning a bomb in three worldwide flights working from Mumbai and inflicting delays and diversions.
The police probe additionally revealed that the boy posted the messages in an try to implicate a 31-year-old man with whom he had run a cellular store a couple of months in the past and suffered monetary loss. “The college child had a monetary dispute involving roughly Rs 3 lakh with the person and had additionally filed a sexual assault case in opposition to him beneath the Pocso Act,” mentioned a senior officer of the Chhattisgarh Police.
The boy was additionally expelled from his faculty for being absent for a protracted interval.
