24-year-old man arrested for sexually abusing minor girl on pretext of marriage

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A 24-year old man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl in the district, police said today. Sarathkumar had kidnapped the 16-year old girl working in a garment factory here and sexually assaulted her by promising to marry her, they added.

A few days ago, he had gone to the factory and taken the girl out by telling the manager in-charge he was her
brother and wanted to take her to meet their ailing father, the police said. Later, he took her to Palani and sexually abused her by promising to marry her, police said.

Meanwhile, the girl's parents lodged a complaint at an all-woman police station, stating that their daughter had gone missing. Police spotted the girl and Sarathkumar near here last night and detained the two. The girl told the police and her family members that the man had sexually assaulted her.

The police registered a case against him under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and also for kidnapping the minor girl.

In another incident, a woman in her twenties was allegedly abducted and gang-raped in Assam's Nagaon district, following which she was dumped on a national highway. In her complaint, the woman said she was riding pillion on a motorcycle that was driven by her male friend who had picked her up from a roadside eatery in Lanka area, where she works, and they were travelling to Golaghat district. She alleged that they were waylaid and forcibly taken away by four men in their vehicle. The woman was then driven away and the four abductors raped her at Amoni near Kalong river. They later abandoned her near a petrol pump on NH 37. Read more

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