Ganjam:

A 22-year-old engineering scholar was arrested on Wednesday over the loss of life of a four-year-old boy in Odisha’s Ganjam district, police stated.

The boy was present in blood on the terrace of his neighbour’s home on Tuesday.

As per preliminary investigation, the engineering scholar had sexually assaulted the boy and fearing arrest, smashed the boy’s head with an iron door of the under-construction home, a police officer stated.

The accused fled the world after the incident and he was arrested close to Aska, its SDPO Uma Shankar Singh stated.

He stated the precise explanation for the loss of life might be ascertained solely after getting the autopsy report.

The incident got here to mild after the sufferer’s dad and mom didn’t discover the boy in the home for lengthy hours and later noticed the boy within the pool of blood on the terrace of the neighbour’s home. He was taken to a group well being centre in Dharakote, the place the physician declared him useless.

In the meantime, human rights activist Rabindra Mishra appealed to the Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) to direct the state authorities to take stringent motion towards the accused and pay a compensation of Rs 20 lakh to the sufferer’s dad and mom.

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