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A 43-year-old antheral was arrested connected Wednesday nighttime by the Fort All Women Police connected the complaint of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old miss successful Tiruchi.
The accused, identified arsenic C. Mari Selvam, is simply a taxi operator from Sivaganga district. According to the police, the transgression was committed connected Wednesday evening erstwhile Mari Selvam visited the location of the girl’s friend. Allegedly nether the power of alcohol, helium abducted the miss successful his car and sexually assaulted her earlier dropping her adjacent her residence. The miss was recovered successful a unconscious state, and connected receipt of information, her sister had rushed the miss to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital successful the city.
Following a ailment lodged by the girl’s sister, the Fort All Women Police registered a lawsuit nether assorted sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Angered implicit the crime, different sister of the victim, on with a fewer others had attacked Mari Selvam astatine Kalmandhai Colony. He was injured successful the onslaught and was besides admitted to the Tiruchi GH. A radical of relatives of the unfortunate staged a protestation successful beforehand of the infirmary precocious connected Wednesday night.
Mari Selvam was arrested and subsequently remanded successful judicial custody. The miss was undergoing attraction astatine the hospital, constabulary sources said.
