Coimbatore : Autopsy reports reveal that the seven year old girl who was found murdered yesterday in Coimbatore was sexually assaulted before being murdered. The police have now filed a case under the POCSO ACT along with murder charges.
Coimbatore : Autopsy reports reveal that the seven year old girl who was found murdered yesterday in Coimbatore was sexually assaulted before being murdered. The police have now filed a case under the POCSO ACT along with murder charges.
Sathish and Vanitha residing in Thippanor near Pannimadai lodged a missing complaint after their 7-year-old daughter did not return from the nearby Government School where she was studying Class 1. The couple became anxious and informed the police station. The parents, relatives and neighbours of the child searched for the little girl all through the night but could not find the child.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday morning, the girl was found dead in a pit at Kasturinaickenpudur with her hands tied and scars all over her body. The police retrieved the body and sent it to the Government Hospital for postmortem.
Thereafter, the parents and their kin staged a roadblock in front of CMCH, demanding the arrest of the culprits immediately and demanded that the culprits be punished with a death sentence.
Vasanth and Vijayakumar are the two suspects arrested in the case, and the police are on the lookout for three others in connection with the murder of the girl. It is alleged that the duo along with three others had abducted the girl and raped her in the backyard of her house. However, the police have not issued any official statement that the girl child was raped before murder. The police had then registered only a murder case.
Only after autopsy reports revealed that the girl was sexually assaulted before being murdered, the police registered a case under the POCSO ACT along with murder charges on the suspects. A special team of 10 police officials have been formed under the DSP to nab the offenders.