garden

proof

WhatsApp

spread

Khadki

friends

Khadki police

Aundh Road

Chatuhshrungi police station

Pradip Gade

Police inspector

S A Nikam

Chatuhshrungi police

Four boys, aged about 17 years, are cooling their heels at an observation home for the last 10 days after a video displaying them engaged in sexual acts was reported to police on November 16.After one of the boys uploaded the video on to their ‘Worldly Affairs’ group on, itlike wildfire in their locality inas well as outside it. All the boys and theirare currently studying in various junior colleges and high schools in the city.An acquaintance who saw the clip on the social messaging application informedon November 16 about the sexually explicit clip of the boys from the locality. Cops summoned the boys and their relatives, who had also seen the video, and the quartet accepted the act as having been done in the absence of ‘pressure’ from anyone, for their own ‘fun’.Explaining why this ‘fun’ video was found on WhatsApp, one of the boys told police in their statement that it had been uploaded by his friend, after he sent it to him as proof of his experience.“While returning from school on November 15, I told my friend about my experience but he didn’t believe me. So, I showed him the video and also sent it to him via Bluetooth. Later, he uploaded the clip in our WhatsApp group, thinking everybody was aware of it. Therafter, the video was circulated further,” the 17-year-old told cops.According to the police, the sexual act was filmed at a garden on— spread over 250 acres and with only seven security guards working in shifts on the premises — on the afternoon of November 13. “Three of us had gone there to eat guavas, but when we reached there we started playing with each others genitals. We then stopped under a tamarind tree, where two of us had oral and anal sex while the third shot it on his phone. This was repeated on all three. After two hours, we returned home,” the boys told cops.As the incident had taken place under, Khadki cops transferred the case to the former. Police constableof Khadki police lodged the complaint in this regard; the boys have been charged for offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, the Information Technology Act, and sections 292 (circulation of obscene material) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code — notably, not Section 377 for ‘unnatural offences’. Police also seized their clothes and mobile phones and deleted the clip.(crime)ofstation, said, “After the incident was reported to us, we seized the phone and got it deleted to stop further circulation. All the boys are friends; the acts were performed by mutual accord.”►► We then stopped under a tamarind tree, where two of us had oral and anal sex while the third shot it on his phone. This was repeated on all three