GHAZIABAD: Police arrested a 36-year-old man on Friday for allegedly sodomising a nine-year-old Australian boy at a marriage function in Masuri on Thursday.
Police said that the boy’s father caught the accused red-handed.
The Australian family had come to India to attend a marriage function in a farmhouse in Masuri.
According to the case FIR, “Around 11.45 pm on Thursday, the accused took the boy to the washroom of the farmhouse. The boy's father saw him taking the child and followed. As soon as he opened the washroom door, the father caught the accused with the boy.”
The man, whose marriage the family was attending, said, “My friend, who runs a digital marketing company in Australia, arrived in the country with his family on November 19.”
“I did not invite the accused to my marriage. A man, who came from Meerut to attend the function, brought the accused along since he was travelling alone. During the incident, the accused was drunk, and he tried to confuse people about what had happened after being caught red-handed,” he added.
Police said the accused, Nishant Sharma, a resident of Meerut, works with a private company as a clerk and has two children from his marriage.
Nimish Patel, ACP Masuri, told TOI that based on a complaint, police filed an FIR against Sharma under IPC sections 377 (unnatural offences), 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) and the relevant sections of the Pocso Act.
“We arrested the accused on Friday and will produce him in court on Saturday. Initially, the accused told police that he took the child to look for a washroom. But later, he confessed his crime,” Patel said.
According to police, the boy's father and the groom, a Delhi resident, have been business friends for the past five years.
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