Seelampur minor's rape: Family looks for closure, one suspect evades police

A 10-year-old boy was brutally assaulted, raped, and suffered serious injuries to his private parts and died after battling for life for 10 days at a Delhi hospital. A year on, his family, which lives in north-east Delhi's Seelampur area, is still grappling for answers and staring at uncertainty as the police are yet to track down one of the three suspects who were named by the victim in a video.

- Hemani Bhandari

Before developing sepsis and succumbing to a cardiac arrest, the shared his ordeal in a video recorded by his family. The Delhi Police apprehended two boys, aged 12 and 13, one of them a cousin of the victim. A third, also named by the victim in the video, remains at large.

The family is still waiting for closure and continue to visit the police station every few days. "Whenever I visit the police station, the officers say that they are still looking for the third boy. They keep dodging my questions," said the 40-year-old mother of the victim.

"He would have been 11 this year," the mother said sitting in her single-room accommodation with her 11-year-old daughter -the twin sister of the deceased.