Mail News service
Jamshedpur, March 25: A 17 year old boy accused of seducing an 11 year old girl with the intent of rape was caught by local people, tied to a pole and thrashed. The incident happened in Sitaramdera. The police arrived at the scene, rescued the boy from the wrath of the locals and took him to the Sitaramdera police station.
According to reports, the accused and the girl with her family reside in the same building on rent. The girl used to call him uncle. On Wednesday afternoon, the girl was washing household utensils when the boy lured her with the promise to show her cartoons on his mobile phone. He took her to his room and bolted the door. Then he started showing her porn films and made sexual advances. The girl somehow managed to to free herself and rushed out. She told her mother about the incident. Meanwhile, the boy escaped.
The family members said that the boy was employed in a mall and that on earlier occasions too he had been beaten up for teasing girls and making obscene moves.
The boy returned to his room on Thursday. The people of the locality who had been told of the incident of Wednesday, caught the boy and tied him to a pillar. They thrashed him and tore his clothes. The girl too beat him with a belt. The accused boy was severely injured.
DSP Headquarter – 1, Virendra Kumar Ram informed that since the accused was also a minor being 17 years old, he would be forwarded to the remand home.