Five young madrasa students were detained in Odisha’s Nayagarh for the murder of a 12-year-old child

Bhubaneswar According to an officer on Sunday, five young students from a madrasa in the Nayagarh district of Odisha were taken into custody by police on suspicion of killing a 12-year-old student and disposing of his body in a septic tank.

The event happened on September 2 at a madrasa inside the Nayagarh district’s Ranpur police station boundaries. The five accused young boys, who are between the ages of 12 and 15, were taken into custody on Saturday after the police filed a case on September 3, Nayagarh Additional Superintendent of Police Subhas Chandra Panda told PTI.

The victim youngster, who was from the Cuttack district’s Badamba area, allegedly threatened seniors with exposing their act of sexually abusing junior students, according to the preliminary Investigation. According to the ASP, a senior madrasa inmate has allegedly been sexually abusing the victim for the past six months, and on August 31, there was also an attempt on his life.

After the victim’s body was recovered from the septic tank, Panda claimed that although it first seemed to be an accident, subsequent evidence revealed that he had been physically tortured and killed. “It was learnt that the victim was sodomised by two senior boys, including the 15-year-old senior inmate of the madrasa, before being killed and his body dumped into the septic tank,” according to the ASP.

The chief accused and his four companions strangled the youngster to death. The ASP stated that “all five were taken into custody and produced before a court,” and that a complaint had been filed under the POCSO Act, Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and a murder charge.

Three lads, however, were charged with murder; one was charged with both murder and the POCSO Act, and the other was charged only with the POCSO Act.

The defendants were moved to Angul’s juvenile detention center.

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