A forensic team Thursday collected samples from the cowshed where a 12-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly locked up and thrashed by a Rajput woman and two others for “polluting” her house by entering it in village Lambdi in Rohru subdivision of Shimla. The team from State Forensic Laboratory, Junga, also inspected the shop of the accused woman where the minor had gone on September 16.

The boy died at Indira Gandhi Medical College & Hospital (IGMC), Shimla on September 17 where he was taken to after he allegedly attempted suicide by consuming some poisonous substance.

A police officer said, “The samples of suspected poisonous substance, which was reportedly consumed by the victim as per the allegations of his parents, had already been collected. The accused woman, Pushpa Devi, 57, was pre

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