A 15-year-old boy was held after he was found guilty of sharing a video of a boy being forced to perform horrendous sexual acts on social networking sites.

According to police, a group of four boys had shot the video on April 30 using their mobile phones.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Bir Bahadur Oli said the victimised boy was 12 years of age. The names of the both the perpetrator and victim have been withheld as all of them happen to be minors.

The victim’s father came to know about the incident only after some of his neighbours who had happened to watch the clip on social networking sites alerted him. Based on his complaints, police had later arrested the four boys (two of them are also aged 12) who were involved in shooting the video of them performing the obscene act on the victim. Police also arrested a local computer operator who had helped the perpetrators to publicise the video on social networking sites.

“All the four arrested boys have already confessed their crimes”, said DSP Oli adding that they have been arrested due to active participation

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In their statement to the police, the guilty teenagers said that they had watched countless pornographic sites on the net and were trying to make a similar video on their own. Meanwhile, all the minors involved in the incident are currently being watched closely, police said.