SCHOOL CRIME: Three Grade 7 students arrested for sodomizing classmate in Haryana

High school boys in India play basketball in this file photo. At a private school in Rohtak, three boys have been arrested for allegedly sodomizing a classmate over the course of a year and a half. Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images

The victim told his parents that the accused, students of the Delhi Public School (DPS) on Jind Road, had been sodomizing him for nearly one-and-a-half years, police said.

The school director and principal could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.

The parents of the victim and their supporters blocked the Jind Road for nearly one hour after school authorities reportedly refused to entertain their complaint. The victim’s parents complained to police after senior officers reached the spot to get the road blockade removed.

“We have registered a case under section 377 (unnatural offence) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and law related to protection of children’s rights against three boys on the complaint of the victim’s mother,” Ved Singh Nain, spokesman of Rohtak police, told IANS.

The parents of the victim alleged that they had come to the school to inform the principal about the incident but she did not listen to them.

“Since we are paying hefty fees to the school for better education, safety and security of our wards, it is the duty of school management to keep a close tab on every child studying in the school. But the school staff and the principal have entirely failed in this case,” said one of the victim’s parents.