Basti: A teenage boy allegedly committed suicide after four men purportedly assaulted him, stripped him naked and urinated on his face in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti District, police said on Tuesday.
According to the Dynamite News correspondent, he could not tolerate the alleged harassment and insult and came home and took the extreme step. The deceased was a resident of Nighari village of Sant Kabir Nagar, who lived at his maternal uncle's house in Basti.
Accused record act
The men also allegedly recorded the act on their phones.
According to the deceased family, he was invited to a birthday party on the night of December 20. There, four men allegedly stripped him, beat him brutally and recorded the entire heinous act on their phones. They also threatened him to make the video viral.
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Accused humiliates the boy
The family alleged that the boy pleaded with the accused to delete the video, but they humiliated him further.
He shares ordeal to parents
After the alleged assault, he returned home and shared the ordeal to his parents. Following which a complaint was lodged at Captainganj police station but an FIR was not registered, his family claimed.
He dies by suicide on Monday
Fear of the video going viral distressed the 17-year-old and he allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself on Monday night. The victim's family took the boy's body to a nearby police station demanding immediate action. However, they alleged that the police did not register any case initially. The family then took the boy's body to the Superintendent of Police (SP) office and staged a ‘dharna’. They said that after sitting outside the SP office for hours, the police registered a case and assured them of action.
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Basti SP Gopal Krishna took action in the case on Tuesday and suspended SHO Deepak Dubey and also registered a case against four named accused and arrested them.
