A case of abduction turned out to be a brutal assault of a ‘missing’ 11-year-old boy who was found lying in the middle of some bushes with severe injuries he sustained at the hands of his schoolmate for allegedly refusing sexual advances.
Police revealed that the victim was a student of a madrassa in Malakpet, attacked by his fellow student and left to die. The accused, who is a 13-year-old student of the same madrassa, had claimed on Wednesday that the victim had been kidnapped by four people who whisked him away in a vehicle.
As said by Malakpet Inspector A Satyanarayana, that the two students left the seminary together around 11.45 am on Wednesday. When they reached an isolated area, the teenaged boy allegedly tried to make sexual advances towards the younger boy.
When the younger one resisted and threatened to report the matter to the madrassa administration, the accused boil with rage and attacked him with a small blade. He went on to attack him with a rod before fleeing. After that, he told the police that the boy had been kidnapped.
The seriously injured boy was found in the bushes at the same spot where he was attacked around 3 am on Thursday. He was hurried to Yashoda Hospital in Malakpet where is being treated for injuries on his head and jaw. According to Hospital sources said he is out of danger.
Cops said the accused would be taken into custody soon. “He was unwilling to tell us what happened, but eventually confessed,” Satyanarayana said.