Thane: A Class VIII student from a school in Palghar district has been booked by the district police for unnatural sex with another school boy.
Palghar District Rural PRO Hemant Katkar said the boy, aged around 12, has been booked under IPC sections 377 (unnatural offences), 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation). An offence has been registered with Tulinj police station under Vasai division of the district police.
The victim, an eight-year-old boy studying in Class III, visited the toilet around 7 p.m. on October 9. It was then that the accused allegedly performed unnatural sex on him, said the police complaint. When the victim resisted, the accused threatened him, mentions the complaint filed by the victim with the police.
The police said the accused had sexually harassed other students in a similar fashion. The accused has been sent to a remand home.
