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A 15-year-old lad was apprehended for sexually harassing a 23-year-old pistillate portion she was walking successful Puzhal. The lad was released aft being produced earlier the Juvenile Justice Board.
According to constabulary sources, the woman, a nonmigratory of the Kolathur constabulary district, was walking by herself on the Secretariat Colony connected the nighttime of November 19.
An unidentified person, who was connected a two-wheeler, approached her and molested her. As she raised an alarm, the fishy fled the scene.
She aboriginal lodged a ailment with the Puzhal police, who registered a lawsuit nether the provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Act and Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Woman Act and launched an investigation.
On scrutiny of CCTV footage from the scene, the constabulary identified the fishy arsenic a 15-year-old boy. The lad was apprehended and taken to the Juvenile Justice Board. He was handed implicit to his parents aft counselling. The conveyance utilized by him was seized.
