Man keeps 9-year-old chained on suspicion of theft, arrested

  • | Thursday | 13th September, 2018

He was sent for a medical test and his statement recorded.“We have arrested the main accused, Asif. Asif was pick-ed up, but the doctor went untraceable.Hind Veer Chauhan, the inspector of Kavi Nagar police station, said the boy was later found loitering in the slums near Naya Ghaziabad railway station. The doctor is on the run,” Chauhan said. The doctor is absconding. Asif was taken to the police station on Tuesday, but released with a fine as there was no complaint against him.A case was, however, registered against Asif and the doctor after a picture of the boy in chains went viral on social media.

GHAZIABAD: A 26-year-old helper at a doctor’s clinic has been arrested for keeping a nine-year-old boy chained on the suspicion of stealing a pair of slippers on Tuesday.Asif, a resident of Masuri in Ghaziabad , was arrested after a picture of the boy in chains, with a lock dangling from the end, was circulated on social media.Cases have been registered against both Asif and the private practitioner who ran the clinic, Navneet Malhotra, in Rajnagar. The doctor is absconding. Sources said police had been tipped-off on Tuesday evening about a boy being chained at the clinic for allegedly stealing a pair of slippers of one of the patients.When a police team visited the clinic around 8.30pm, the boy was missing but the people present there told the cops that Asif had released him after being threatened with an FIR by some of the patients. Asif was taken to the police station on Tuesday, but released with a fine as there was no complaint against him.A case was, however, registered against Asif and the doctor after a picture of the boy in chains went viral on social media. Asif was pick-ed up, but the doctor went untraceable.Hind Veer Chauhan, the inspector of Kavi Nagar police station, said the boy was later found loitering in the slums near Naya Ghaziabad railway station. He was sent for a medical test and his statement recorded.“We have arrested the main accused, Asif. The doctor is on the run,” Chauhan said.

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