The constabulary person registered a lawsuit astatine Juhu presumption nether applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bombay Children Act 1948 and Information Technology Act. (File photo)
The Mumbai constabulary connected Monday registered a lawsuit against 3 men who allegedly stripped disconnected the apparel of 2 teen brothers successful Juhu, shaved disconnected their heads and assaulted them aft tying their hands and legs.
The constabulary said that the 2 boys, aged 17 and 14, who were roaming successful the area, were tortured nether the suspicion that they were thieves.
The incidental came to airy aft the accused filmed the incidental and uploaded the video connected societal media.
“We are successful possession of the videos and are trying to place the culprits done section informers. We volition soon marque an apprehension successful the case,” a elder constabulary serviceman said.
The constabulary person registered a lawsuit astatine Juhu presumption nether applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bombay Children Act 1948 and Information Technology Act, based connected the ailment of the boys’ maternal gramps who mentioned that the viral video besides showed the teen boys being dragged with a chain.
“I could besides spot the section radical beating and kicking the boys portion the 2 were being dragged connected the floor,” the 60-year-old antheral told the police.
The 2 teen boys are staying with their gramps pursuing the decease of their parent respective years ago.
“Around 7 p.m. connected Monday, my niece informed maine that my 2 grandsons were beaten up by the radical successful our locality,” the aged antheral told the police.
When helium recovered the grandsons, they told him that portion they were proceeding to a aesculapian store astir 3 americium connected Monday, the section radical surrounded them suspecting them to beryllium thieves, the constabulary said.
“The men tortured them passim the night. They were acceptable escaped a fewer hours aboriginal aft threatening them that they would beryllium beaten up again if they revealed the incidental to anyone,” an serviceman said.