New Delhi, March 10: The Uttar Pradesh police have
arrested two persons who killed a minor boy after inserting the nozzle of an
air compressor into his rectum. The 16-year-old boy died after air was pumped
into his body. The gruesome incident happened in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh.
The arrests were made following a
complaint by the father of the deceased who works with the accused at a rice
mill in the area. Police said the victim and three
accused worked at a rice mill in Pilibhit district of UP. A case was registered
against the accused following a complaint by the father of the victim. Two
accused have been detained by the police.
“On March 4, when he (victim) was
about to eat his lunch, three labourers identified as Amit, Suraj and Kamlesh
grabbed my son. Amit and Suraj held his hands while Kamlesh pumped air in his
body by the rice mill’s air compressor through his private parts,” a report
saying.
The boy rushed to a nearby hospital for
treatment but after the teenager’s health worsened, he was shifted to a
hospital in Bareilly, where he succumbed to painful death after two days, the
police said.
Police, on the basis of this
complaint, registered a case against the three accused under 304 (culpable
homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code. Two of them have
been detained by the police. Efforts are on to find out why the accused pumped
air into the victim’s body, police said.