ROORKEE: A 15-year-old Class 9 student of a reputed public school in Roorkee was allegedly abducted and assaulted by a group of seniors from the same school on Wednesday evening. The teen was on his way to tuition classes when he was intercepted by a group of Class 10 students on a two-wheeler, his father said. They took him to an isolated spot in an old industrial area and "kicked, punched and thrashed him using belts".
The attackers, all of whom were minors, filmed the assault and uploaded it on social media allegedly to gain views for the act which they considered ‘heroic'. The attack stopped only after a passerby intervened, following which the group fled.
Police said the incident stemmed from an ongoing rivalry between two student groups in the school. The teen had allegedly objected to the group's assault on another student a day earlier. Police added that the school was aware of that earlier incident.
Based on a complaint by the boy's father, police registered a case under BNS Sections 191-2 (rioting), 191-3 (rioting with deadly weapons), 190 (unlawful assembly), 137-2 (kidnapping), and 115-2 (voluntarily causing hurt). Three students have been named in the FIR, along with over a dozen unidentified others.
With no detentions even 48 hours after the incident, the boy's father, who runs a jewellery shop, alleged the "police inaction" was due to "political pressure". "The attackers are still roaming free. If the police acted promptly and without bias, arrests would have been made by now. If this continues, we, the traders of the area, will be forced to shut down the market in protest," he said.
Inspector Amarjeet Singh, in-charge of Gangnahar police station, said, "We are in touch with the school management and the victim's family. Appropriate action will be taken soon and those responsible will be apprehended."
The attackers, all of whom were minors, filmed the assault and uploaded it on social media allegedly to gain views for the act which they considered ‘heroic'. The attack stopped only after a passerby intervened, following which the group fled.
Police said the incident stemmed from an ongoing rivalry between two student groups in the school. The teen had allegedly objected to the group's assault on another student a day earlier. Police added that the school was aware of that earlier incident.
Based on a complaint by the boy's father, police registered a case under BNS Sections 191-2 (rioting), 191-3 (rioting with deadly weapons), 190 (unlawful assembly), 137-2 (kidnapping), and 115-2 (voluntarily causing hurt). Three students have been named in the FIR, along with over a dozen unidentified others.
With no detentions even 48 hours after the incident, the boy's father, who runs a jewellery shop, alleged the "police inaction" was due to "political pressure". "The attackers are still roaming free. If the police acted promptly and without bias, arrests would have been made by now. If this continues, we, the traders of the area, will be forced to shut down the market in protest," he said.
Inspector Amarjeet Singh, in-charge of Gangnahar police station, said, "We are in touch with the school management and the victim's family. Appropriate action will be taken soon and those responsible will be apprehended."
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