Eight-year-old boy murdered for resisting sexual assault

Rajkot | Sunday | 23rd September, 2018

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He was informed by Jamal after Vishwas did not return home on Friday morning.When Jamal had confronted Jhimar about Vishwas, he was told that the boy had left early in the morning. Interestingly, Jhimar too had joined Iman and Jamal in searching Vishwas. But when the boy resisted, he strangled him with a towel and dumped his body near Gondal Chowkdi.Vishwas lived with his father’s uncle Jamal in the slums near Pawanputra Chowk in Bhaktinagar area of the city. So, Jhimar strangled the boy with a towel and then dumped the body in the bushes near Gondal Chowkdi,” Gadhvi said.Vishwas was studying in class I at a government school and used to work at the farm of one Raju Jadav. As his father did not have enough space, Vishwas was living with Jamal.The deceased and other boys used to sleep in Jhimar’s tent at night because they didn’t have enough space in the shanty..