BATHINDA: Muktsar police have failed to
arrest any of the five persons booked for allegedly beating up a minor
Dalit boy after tying him to a tree. The boy was also allegedly kept in illegal confinement for three days after he was handed over to the police.
Police had registered a case on June 20 after a video clip of the incident had come to light.
Muktsar SSP Sushil Kumar said, “Teams have been sent to various places to arrest the accused.” The police are also looking into the charges of keeping the boy in illegal confinement.
Meanwhile, police have added charges under Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the accused in the case.
The 17-year-old boy was picked up by five persons on the night of June 16 on the charges of stealing a pressure cooker and bottles of coke from a house. He was allegedly tied to a tree and beaten up. According to his family, the boy was also given electric shock to make him confess to the theft. After being beaten up, he was handed over to the police where the boy was allegedly kept in illegal confinement for three days and was left only after video clip came to light on June 20.
The family members had held a protest at Muktsar Sadar police station on Wednesday following which the police had registered a case against Gora Singh, Pinder Singh, Bohar Singh, Pindi Singh, Iqbal Singh (of Thandewala village) and some unknown persons under charges of kidnapping, wrongful confinement and voluntarily causing hurt against five persons.
The boy’s father had claimed that “the police had kept the boy in illegal custody for three days. We want action against persons who thrashed him and those who kept him in illegal custody.”
The police officials had denied keeping the boy in illegal custody.
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