Mumbai: The Amboli police have registered a case against a live-in partner for allegedly brutally beating his partner’s 8-year-old son with a belt. The boy’s maternal uncle filed a complaint against the accused, Ankit Chaudhary, 38.
According to the complaint, Chaudhary frequently beat the boy with a steel scale and abused him whenever the boy asked to attend school. The case was registered on December 31 under the Juvenile Justice Act.
According to the FIR, the victim’s parents married in 2015. In March 2019, the boy’s father passed away. His 35-year-old mother, along with her son, moved to her maternal house in Borivali West.
In 2018, the boy’s mother had been working at a mobile company in Andheri West, where she met her colleague, Ankit Chaudhary. During the pandemic, she left the job and lost contact with Chaudhary.
However, in December 2023, the boy’s mother and Chaudhary reconnected and fell in love. They decided to live together, and in August 2024, she moved with her son to Chaudhary’s house in Andheri West, cutting off contact with her mother and other relatives.
On December 30, around 8.15 p.m., the boy’s maternal uncle returned home from work and found the boy standing near the house gate, crying.
The boy told his uncle that Chaudhary had taken him there and left him alone. Further, he revealed that on December 24, Chaudhary had beaten him with a belt, causing injuries to his left knee, near his eye, and on his back.
Chaudhary frequently beat him with a steel scale and abused him whenever the boy asked to attend school. The boy’s uncle transported him to Shatabdi Hospital, Kandivali West, for treatment. The boy constantly pleaded with his mother and her partner to let him live at his maternal uncle’s house.
The boy’s grandmother filed a complaint against Ankit Chaudhary, leading the police to register the case under Section 75 (cruelty to children) of the Juvenile Justice Act along with sections 115(2) (Voluntarily causing hurt), 118(1) (Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means), and 352 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
