11-year-old boy booked for sodomy in Patna

PATNA: An 11-year-old boy has been booked for allegedly sodomizing a five-year-old neighbour at Ram Krishna Nagar in Patna.
SHO Jehangir Alam Khan said the victim’s parents lodged an FIR in this connection late Thursday night.
“The accused is the grandson of an elderly couple in whose house the victim and his parents live on rent,” he said.
Khan said the victim’s father told police that the matter was around three months old but his son recently told him about it. He said the accused was shifted by his family members soon after knowing about the FIR.
“The accused boy’s grandparents alleged that the victim’s family has not paid rent for at least four months. Both the elderly persons were asking them repeatedly to clear payments which the family failed to do. Recently, both of them had asked the victim’s family to vacate their rented accommodation after arguments on failure to pay rent,” he said.
Khan said the victim’s medical examination was conducted on Friday. “We are waiting for the medical examination report. Besides, we are putting efforts that at least the grandparents bring the accused once before the police,” he said.
The SHO said when the victim was asked about the it, he said “sexually assaulted”.
“It’s highly impossible that a child of such a tender age would be able to tell police using specific technical terms about the incident until he is tutored,” he said.
Khan said police investigation is more inclined towards the possibility that the sodomy allegation is the outcome of a rent dispute between both sides. “Further things would become clear soon,” he added.