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A shocking case of rape and murder has emerged from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh where a 15-year-old minor boy has sexually assaulted and smothered a toddler to death. The boy had locked and raped her inside the toilet while the victim’s mother continuously banged the door. He did not pay heed to the mother’s banging as well as to the toddler’s cry for help.
What did the boy do?
According to the SP, the toddler was playing near her house when her father was away for work and on not finding her anywhere nearby, her mother started searching. After multiple failed efforts, a neighbour told her that the minor boy and the toddler were seen going towards a toilet in his house. She then rushed to the boys’ house and kept knocking on the door till he opened it.
Soon after when her efforts failed, the victim’s mother informed her neighbours who immediately came and broke open the door. However, on arrival, it was too late as the minor boy had already raped the girl and she had succumbed various injuries. The accused tried to escape but was caught and handed over to the police. The police said that the girl was bleeding profusely and was in a critical situation when she was rescued.
After being rescued she was rushed to the hospital for treatment and had bite marks all over her body. As soon as they reached, the doctors declared her dead-on arrival. The police had detained the boy, registered a case under POCSO and lodged a case of murder alongside questioning. The postmortem revealed that she had injuries in her private parts and nail and bite marks on her body.
According to an officer, the toddler and her family were living as tenants in the house owned by the accused’s family.
The boy’s uncle has also been arrested for allegedly concealing the evidence against his nephew. It is said that initially he delayed the rescue of the toddler when her mother insisted on opening the bathroom door, but he refused. The second time was when she reached there again and demanded to see the boy, but he dodged it and told that he was in the bathroom. They then went to a private clinic where they were denied treatment and went to a government hospital. However, on the way, he asked the victim’s mother to get off from the car and went away abandoning them.
What is he charged with?
After the horrifying incident came to light, local people assembled around the police station and demanded strict action against the accused boy. SP Rajnesh Singh assured that action will be taken against the accused under the Juvenile Justice Act norms. On the basis of complaint by the victim’s family, cases under IPC 1860 provisions have been lodged pertaining to rape and murder along with POCSO Act.
In reaction to this, netizens questioned the parenting of the kid and said we need courses on parenting and how to raise kids. Another netizen expressed their disbelief by pointing out a possible cause for this by saying, “This is all happening because of the normalisation of abusive languages and jokes in the name of dark humour by influencers.”
