15-year-old dies by suicide in Pune, police say boy was sexually assaulted, threatened by 26-year-old

“Initial probe revealed that the lad had been receiving messages from assorted numbers threatening him to circulate a definite video. We zeroed successful connected a 26-year-old antheral who works arsenic a income executive. He mostly stands extracurricular a mall. It came to airy that the deceased lad had met the accused extracurricular the mall. A fewer months ago, the accused allegedly took the lad to a secluded determination connected a elevation and sexually assaulted him,” the elder inspector said.

“The accused had allegedly recorded the transgression and had been sending messages to the lad threatening to circulate it. Probe suggests that repeated harassment drove the teen to instrumentality the utmost step,” the serviceman added.

After the termination was reported, the constabulary had registered a lawsuit of abrupt decease pending probe into the causes. After the completion of the investigation, an FIR was registered and the 26-year-old was arrested. He has been remanded successful constabulary custody.

Police person invoked Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Section 107 which pertains to abetment of termination of a kid and provisions of POCSO.