READ MORE: Crazed man killed woman, 21, because her pet pooed outside his apartmentHer statement also said that the gang beat her son with bricks and rods, according to local media reports.
The petrified child only opened up to his parents a few days after the alleged attack and they instantly informed the police.
He is still in a critical condition in hospital and detectives are now carrying out an investigation to determine what exactly happened.In a post on Twitter, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal wrote: "In Delhi, not even boys are safe.
A 12-year-old boy was brutally raped by four people and left in a half-dead condition after being beaten with sticks."To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.She went on to reveal that only one suspect had so far been arrested by the police, who are yet to trace the other three.India is in the grip of a rape crisis with an average of 86 cases reported every day, according to recent data.A mum and her six-year-old daughter were also gang-raped in a car after accepting a lift with a group of men from Piran Kaliyar, a holy site for Muslims and Hindus, on the banks of the Ganga Canal.Another mother also chopped off her boyfriend's penis with a kitchen knife after she caught him trying to rape her 14-year-old daughter in the city of Lakhimpur, declaring that she wanted to "teach him a lesson".READ MORE:WWE's new boss 'attacked her dad with a steel pipe before he choked her unconscious'Simulator makes eerie prediction for what could happen if NASA mission fails next weekUkraine 'deploying explosive suicide drones' against Russia's Black Sea fleet.
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