The body of a boy, who was injured in a road mishap in Delhi Vivek Vihar area, was dumped in an underpass by three of his friends instead of rushing him to a hospital leading to the boy’s death, the Delhi Police said on Tuesday, adding that the trio, one of whom is a juvenile, have been arrested.

Giving details about the incident, an official statement from the city police said that three men dumped the body of their friend body in an underpass in the Vivek Vihar area after an auto-rickshaw they were travelling overturned leading to injuries to the now deceased boy.

According to the statement, a missing report was lodged by the victim, Nitesh’s father Rajendra Gupta at Nand Nagri police station on March 9 and on Saturday, Vivek Vihar police station informed Nand Nagri police station that on Wednesday around 2 am, they recovered a body of an unidentified person from the Kastoorba Nagar underpass.

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The body was identified by the victim’s father in the mortuary of GTB hospital.

During the investigation, police checked the CCTV footage and found that Nitesh was sitting with some people inside an auto-rickshaw on the intervening night of March 7 and 8. Later, it was revealed that he was with his friends — Pawan, Brij Mohan and a minor, according to the statement.

Pawan was driving the auto-rickshaw. When police questioned him, it was revealed that they were celebrating the Holika Dahan festival and were going towards Gagan Cinema for dinner, the police statement said, adding that Nitesh was sitting on the right side of Pawan. When the driver took a turn from Sunder Nagri towards Gagan Cinema, he lost control. The vehicle overturned and Nitesh came under the auto-rickshaw.

An official said that instead of taking the injured boy to a hospital, the three friends picked up his wounded body from the same spot where the accident happened in the same autorickshaw and dumped him at an underpass in the Vivek Vihar area of the national capital.

The boy died of his injuries later and might have survived if he had received timely medical attention, the official said.

The senior official said that autorickshaw belonged to one of the three accused who have now been arrested and a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), has been registered against him, adding that further investigation is underway.

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A 60-year-old man was arrested by the police for allegedly sexually harassing a 7-year-old girl from his neigbourhood in Gulabi Bagh area of north Delhi, officials said on Saturday.

According to the police, the accused—an elderly man identified as Badrinath, resident of Delhi’s Pratap Nagar—allegedly undressed the minor girls and touched her private parts.

An official said that on Wednesday night, the girl’s mother, accompanied by her daughter filed a complaint against the accused at a local police station. She said that her daughter, a student of second standard, had narrated the ordeal to her mother, accusing the old man or sexually harassing her for the past 8-10 days.

On Wednesday, the man allegedly undressed the child and touched her privates. The girl told her mother resulting in an argument between her and the accused leading to the police being informed about the quarrel at around 10:29 pm on Wednesday night.

A senior official said the woman’s statement was recorded at the police station and a case under section 376 (punishment for rape) of the Indian Penal Code and section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered against the accused.

The accused has been arrested and further investigation is underway, he said, adding that a medical examination of the victim is being carried out.

In a similar incident, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an inebriated man while her friend (9) was injured, as she managed to escape a rape attempt the accomplice of the accused on Holi, Wednesday, in Bihar’s Begusarai.

According to reports, the two girls, aged 7 and 9, who belong to same village, were on their way back from a local market on Holi during afternoon hours. The girls stopped at a local government school in Panchdir Chowk on their way back home to enjoy a swing ride where they were approached by the two men, who tried to coax the minors to come with them. The men were reportedly drunk.

Liquor is banned in Bihar.

The girls, fearing their motives, refused and one child hid tried hiding in the school toilet where one of the accused, identified as Sohan Kumar alias Chhotu Mahto, allegedly raped her. The victim’s friend managed to resist the rape bid by the second accused, Bablu Kumar, and ran away to a nearby street where she informed people about the incident.

The girl sustained injuries while escaping the rape bid.

Reports said that locals soon rushed to the spot and rescued the rape victim who had been thrown into the bushes by the accused after the horrendous act.

A man was reportedly killed during a brawl in Mehrauli area of Delhi on Wednesday, the city police has said.

An official said that the victim, identified as 32-year-old Brajesh Kumar, died was killed in a scuffle between two groups in South Delhi’s Mehrauli. He said the police received information at around 1:30 pm on Wednesday about a fight at ward number 3. A police team was rushed to the spot where they found the deceased, Brajesh Kumar (32), lying in a pool of blood at his rented place.

Kumar had sustained severe injuries on his head and was rushed to a local hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, he said.

The victim was a native of Khagriya in Bihar.

Giving details, the official revealed that one of Brajesh’s friends was involved in an altercation with a boy at a local shop where he had gone to buy shampoo. The boy later came back with some of his accomplices and a fight ensued between the two groups.

During the brawl, Brajesh was hit on the head with an iron rod by the assailants, causing fatal injuries.

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He said the accused have been arrested and a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) registered against them, adding that further investigation is underway.

In a similar incident, two people were arrested for allegedly beating a CNG pump salesman to death in Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh area on Wednesday.

The deceased was identified as 34-year-old Vikas Chandra, a resident of Swaroop Nagar, Daulatpur Samaypur, according to the police.

A senior police official said that the victim was heading home after finishing his shift at the CNG pump in

Golden Park Jhuggi, New Rohtak Road, at around 4:00 pm on Wednesday. He stopped at a shop enroute to buy some articles where he got involved in an altercation with some local Jhuggi residents, identified as Karan and Arjun.

The inebriated men, reported thrashed Vikas to death, he said, adding that legal action is being initiated and an FIR under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered.

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