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The parent of the 10-year-old girl, who was sexually assaulted and murdered near Coimbatore, alleged connected Sunday (May 24, 2026) that her hubby took the child’s assemblage to his autochthonal spot successful Salem and cremated it without her consent oregon allowing her to spot the mortal remains.
The woman, who spoke to mediapersons in Coimbatore in the evening, said she decided not to judge her daughter’s assemblage until “justice is served”. However, it was released from the morgue in Coimbatore after her husband’s signature was obtained, she said.
Police enactment sought
“They did not amusement maine the assemblage and left ESI Hospital premises done the backmost gate. Though we tried to travel the ambulance to person a glimpse of the body, they near the spot. Though I went to his autochthonal spot successful Salem, they cremated the assemblage without adjacent showing maine her face,” she alleged, demanding constabulary enactment against her hubby and relatives.
Responding to societal media posts and allegations that she was nether the power of intoxicant and was unconscious erstwhile the main accused, K. Karthi, 33, abducted her girl from the neighbourhood at Pallapalayam near Sulur on the evening of May 21, the pistillate said she had consumed a brushed portion that her hubby had kept successful the refrigerator. She suspected that intoxicant was mixed successful it.
“I drank the acold portion from the refrigerator... I mislaid consciousness aft consuming it,” said the woman, adding that nary 1 should dispersed slander against her successful her existent situation.
The pistillate besides denied immoderate acquaintance with Karthi as alleged by definite radical connected societal media. She said she came to cognize of him lone aft his arrest, and nary 1 allowed her to explicate her side.
Karthi, who allegedly suffered fractures connected the close limb and limb portion attempting to flight from the police, was shifted to the prisoners’ ward from the intensive attraction portion of a hospital.
Relief handed over
Earlier, Minister for Transport A. Vijay Tamilan Parthiban and Minister for Backward Classes Welfare V. Sampath Kumar visited the girl’s autochthonal spot in Mettur taluk of Salem territory and handed implicit a alleviation assistance of ₹7 lakh to the family.
According to an authoritative release, the alleviation was provided connected behalf of the Department of Children Welfare and Special Services pursuing directions from the Madras High Court. Collector K. Elambahavath, Superintendent of Police Gautam Goyal, and different officials were present.
