UP cop sexually abuses boy for 20 days at police post

AGRA: A constable posted at the Uttar Pradesh police’s emergency service, Dial 100, has been booked for allegedly sodomising a teenage boy for 20 days at an outpost in Hathras district, two officers aware of the preliminary probe said, detailing the latest in a string of incidents illustrating police brutality or excesses in India’s most populous state.

Hathras police superintendent Jai Prakash said Sanjesh Yadav, the constable who is now on the run, has been suspended.

The action was taken after the Dalit boy was able to muster courage to lodge a complaint at Hathras’ Kotwali police station when Yadav went on leave on September 30.

Prakash said circle officer (Kotwali) Suman Kannojia has been assigned to investigate the alleged abuse.

“A case has been registered at the Kotwali police station and the boy’s medical report is awaited,” said the Hathras superintendent of police.

Uttar Pradesh police has faced increasing allegations of abuse, including the staging of fake encounters to eliminate gangsters.

On Saturday, two UP police constables were arrested after one of them allegedly shot dead a local executive of Apple Inc in his car in the upscale Gomtinagar neighbourhood of Lucknow.

In the Hathras case, Yadav frequented a roadside restaurant where the boy worked. According to the boy’s complaint, Yadav first took him to the outpost and asked him to cook for him. The constable later began sexually abusing the boy, Prakash quoted the complaint as saying .

The boy narrated the abuse to other policemen at the outpost, who advised him to lodge a complaint. But he could not gather the courage to stand up to the constable, who allegedly continued to assault him for 20 days.