IN A shocking incident, a Dalit teenage boy was allegedly thrashed and forced to consume urine and soil while his eye brows were shaved by some youths of his village under the Sujanganj police station area in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district. The incident took place on Thursday but the FIR was registered on Saturday evening following the intervention of Jaunpur SP Ajay Pal Sharma.

 

The boy was also sent for medical examination which will determine if the victim is a minor. Meanwhile,the persons who thrashed him have also lodged an FIR against the Dalit boyalleging that he had sexuallyharassed a girl of their family. Police said that on their complaint,a named FIR against the boy had been lodged undersection 354 (outraging modesty) of IPC.

 

In his complaint, the father of the Dalit boy alleged that his son was returning home fromthe Aami area on Thursday when the assailants caught him and thrashed him. Later, they forced him to consume soil and urine, he said, alleging that his son’s eye brows were shaved.