COIMBATORE: The Perur all-woman police arrested a 67-year-old man on Friday for sodomizing two Class III college boys in his home in a village close to Chettipalayam.
A police officer mentioned the accused was a each day wage labourer. “He was residing alone after the second spouse separated from him. On Tuesday, he invited an eight-year-old boy to his home from his neighbourhood and sodomised him. He threatened the boy to not reveal the incident to anybody.”
On Thursday, the officer mentioned, the boy developed extreme ache and revealed the incident to his mom, who lodged a criticism with the Perur all-woman police, who registered a case towards the aged man below Sections 3(a), 3(b), 4, 5(1), 6(m) and 10 of the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act and arrested him on Friday.
“Preliminary inquiry revealed that the aged man had sodomized one other eight-year-old boy in his residence two weeks in the past. He was produced earlier than the particular court docket for Pocso instances and lodged within the Coimbatore Central Jail below judicial custody,” the officer mentioned.