25 July,2017 07:00 PM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Ojha
Nearly a week after sexual assault by a group of boys in Powai pushed two traumatised minors to attempt suicide, the second victim died at KEM Hospital early on Tuesday morning
Nearly a week after sexual assault by a group of boys in Powai pushed two traumatised minors to attempt suicide, the second victim died at KEM Hospital early this morning. While one of the victims, aged 10, had succumbed soon after the incident, his 13-year-old friend, who was battling for his life after consuming poison, died at 4.30 am.
ND Reddy, deputy commissioner of police, Zone 10, said, "We have received information about his death from the hospital. We are still trying to trace the accused. We have to rely on the victim's relatives statements as we were unable to record anyone's statement in this case."
The incident is said to have taken place on July 6, when the minors were going to tuition class. After the attack by a group of boys, the two carried on and reached class. The tuition teacher noticed that both appeared scared. She tried to communicate with them, but they refused to say anything to her. "The teacher called me and told me about this behaviour. But I just assumed it must be some phase," admitted the distraught father.
The case came to light on the night of July 12, when the teenager's father noticed his son vomiting. He took him to the nearest private hospital, where check-up revealed poison in his system. The hospital, without even stabilising the boy, asked the parents to go to a government-run hospital. They then took him to Sion Hospital, where he was admitted to the ICU.
During preliminary medical check-up, doctors found out that the 13-year-old had been sexually assaulted. Shocked, when his parents asked him, he mumbled the name of a person who had taken him to a different neighbourhood. "He told us that he was with a friend of his (the 10-year-old) when a common friend took the two to a place where three-four boys sodomised the two," his father added.
After getting this information, the boy's mother registered a complaint. When the police inquired about the other boy, they found that he had succumbed. "He was taken to the trauma centre in Jogeshwari, but he passed away," a relative of his said.
