Sodomised Pipili Boy Returns Home After Treatment At City Hosp

Bhubaneswar: Ramzan Khan, the eight-year-old boy who was allegedly sodomised by a man at Pipili six weeks ago, returned home on Friday after being successfully treated at SUM hospital here.

The boy, after being sexually assaulted by the accused late in the evening, was found in an unconscious state near an under-construction house, his head having been hit with a brick.

The child was first shifted by the IIC of Pipili police station, Sarat Sahu, to the Primary Health Centre at Pipili and then to a government hospital before being admitted into SUM Hospital in a critical state.

Finding that the parents of the boy were unable to bear the treatment expenses, the SOA authorities directed the hospital to treat the child free of cost. A team of doctors drawn from different disciplines treated him for around six weeks till he recovered fully.

Experts drawn from the departments of neurosurgery, paediatrics, surgery, ophthalmology, psychiatry and critical care unit, besides physiotherapists and occupational therapists, treated the boy.

The expert team included Prof Mamata Devi Mohanty, Head of Department of Pediatrics, Dr Ishwar Chandra Behera, Critical Care Expert, Dr Somnath Prasad Jena, Neurosurgeon and Dr Surjeet Sahoo, Head of Department of Psychiatry.

A day after the brutal incident, Pipili police arrested Juma Khan, a local rickshaw-puller, on charges of subjecting the minor boy to sexual abuse and attempting to kill him to destroy the evidence.