10 booked for sexually assaulting 17-year-old British boy in Gurugram

GURUGRAM: The police on Saturday booked 10 boys for allegedly sexually assaulting, thrashing and threatening a 17-year-old British national of Indian origin.

The victim had reached Sushant Lok -1 to attend a friend’s birthday party on the night of July 23. The suspects caught hold of the boy after his father dropped him outside the society.

Investigators said the victim had met one of the suspects on a social media app in July this year.

In a video of the incident that was circulating online, the suspects are seen assaulting the boy, tearing his T-shirt, beating him up, and asking him to apologise to ‘a certain someone’, who police are yet to identify. The suspects shot four videos and put them up on social media, police said.

Usha Kundu, assistant commissioner of police, said the incident came to light on August 15, after the family noticed that the boy had started missing his online classes and was not talking to them properly.

“The boy told his parents he was beaten, abused and sexually assaulted by a group of boys whom he met on a ‘house party’ application and had a tiff with. The boy claimed he apologised for the tiff later, but the suspects did not spare him and swore revenge,” she said.

During investigations, it was revealed the suspects sodomised and sexually assaulted him, while recording videos.

Bijender Singh, SHO, Sushant Lok police station said, “We have got all the videos and have roped in the cyber team to get the IP addresses of the suspects to arrest them. Their ages are still unknown.” A case under Sections 147(rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimation) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 6 and 10 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act has been registered.