PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Monday said the postmortem report confirmed that the eight-year-old boy kidnapped on Saturday night from Wakad was sexually abused before he was murdered.
Confirming it, assistant commissioner of police (Wakad division) Vishal Hire said the police had added sections 302 (murder) and 377 (unnatural offence) of IPC in the case.The 28-year-old man arrested on Sunday has been charged with the relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, too.
Hailing from Chitrakoot in UP, he had shifted to Pune over a month ago in search of livelihood and stayed in the Bavdhan area. “We are investigating if he had any cases in Uttar Pradesh,” Hire said.
Deputy commissioner of police (zone-II) Bapu Bangar said, “The post-mortem report stated that the boy’s vital organs were damaged because he was brutally beaten up. Three days before kidnapping the boy, the suspect had taken up a job with a sugarcane juice centre close to the former’s house. He befriended the boy by offering him sugarcane juice on a couple of occasions before taking him on Saturday night to a desolate spot along the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass in Bavdhan.”
He said CCTV footage collected from the area showed the boy walking with the arrested suspect.
Confirming it, assistant commissioner of police (Wakad division) Vishal Hire said the police had added sections 302 (murder) and 377 (unnatural offence) of IPC in the case.The 28-year-old man arrested on Sunday has been charged with the relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, too.
Hailing from Chitrakoot in UP, he had shifted to Pune over a month ago in search of livelihood and stayed in the Bavdhan area. “We are investigating if he had any cases in Uttar Pradesh,” Hire said.
Deputy commissioner of police (zone-II) Bapu Bangar said, “The post-mortem report stated that the boy’s vital organs were damaged because he was brutally beaten up. Three days before kidnapping the boy, the suspect had taken up a job with a sugarcane juice centre close to the former’s house. He befriended the boy by offering him sugarcane juice on a couple of occasions before taking him on Saturday night to a desolate spot along the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass in Bavdhan.”
He said CCTV footage collected from the area showed the boy walking with the arrested suspect.