HYDERABAD: In a strange case, a 13-year-old has been booked for extortion by Banjara Hills police after being charged with threatening his classmate and making him steal Rs 5 lakh from his family.
A portion of the stolen money was recovered by police who have also booked two family members of the 13-year-old for receiving stolen cash.
On the morning of October 28, a 35-year-old mechanic and used car seller from Zehranagar realised that Rs 5 lakh cash that he had kept in the almirah, had gone missing. After enquiring with all his family members, he confronted his son, a class 7 student at a local school, about the missing cash.
“The boy told his father that his classmate had forcibly taken away his books at school and threatened him that he will only return the books if he gets money from his house. The boy’s father also alleged that the juvenile offender also threatened to beat his son and harm him if he did not get the money,” Banjara Hills deputy inspector, Md Hafeezuddin, said.
Based on the complaint of the boy’s father, an extortion case was registered against the juvenile offender. Police said that when the boy was examined in the presence of the family and child welfare department officials, it was revealed that he gave the money to his maternal uncle who stays at Zehranagar and his mother at Bazarghat.
“We are in the process of recovering the money. As the maximum punishment for the offence is below seven years, the boy has been produced before the child protection officer and handed over to the family. The two family members who received the money will be booked under section 411 of the IPC after the recovery,” the DI said.
The boy told his father that his classmate had forcibly taken away his books at school and threatened him that he will only return the books if he gets money from his house...We are in the process of recovering the money
