A court has sentenced a 41-year-old man to 300 hours of compulsory community service for throwing a 4-year-old girl into a spring in Baliqchi district, Andijan province.
The Khonobod City Criminal Court found the man, identified as A.Kh., guilty of hooliganism under Article 277, Part 2, Clause “d” of the Criminal Code.
The incident took place at about 7 p.m. on April 25, 2026, in the Gurovon mahalla (neighborhood), the document said. A.Kh. testified that he had drunk a glass of beer and 200 grams of vodka at about 10 a.m. that day, then went to an acquaintance’s TV repair workshop, where he saw the girl.
“I remember passing the cemetery. After that, because I was very drunk, I can’t remember what I did,” he told the court. He said he came to in a sobering-up center.
A woman named Muattar, who was at the scene, pulled the girl from the water, took her home, changed her clothes and called the 102 emergency line.
The girl’s mother, identified as D.M., told the court her daughter went out to play at about 6 p.m. and did not return. At about 8 p.m., she said, her brother called to say an unfamiliar man had met the girl in the street, said “You are my child, come,” taken her with him and thrown her into a roadside spring. She said her daughter is now in good health and asked the court to take lawful measures against the man.
A.Kh. told the court he believed the girl was his son and could not recall throwing her into the water. He said he regretted his actions and had apologized to her parents.
