CUDDALORE: The Sethiathope all-women police on Tuesday arrested a 16-year-old boy on charges of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a village near Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu.
The police produced the boy before the juvenile justice board, which sent him to an observation home in Cuddalore town.
The boy, who is a Class XII student, barged into the house of the Class IX girl on Oct 12 when she was alone. She was fast asleep. He sexually assaulted her. She raised an alarm. The boy fled the scene when her neighbours came to her rescue. The girl narrated the incident to the neighbours and later to her parents.
Her mother lodged a complaint with Sethiathope all-women police. The police booked the teenager under sections 332 (house trespass in order to commit an offence) of the BNS and sections 7 (sexual assault) and 8 (punishment for sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, and arrested him.
The police produced the boy before the juvenile justice board, which sent him to an observation home in Cuddalore town.
The boy, who is a Class XII student, barged into the house of the Class IX girl on Oct 12 when she was alone. She was fast asleep. He sexually assaulted her. She raised an alarm. The boy fled the scene when her neighbours came to her rescue. The girl narrated the incident to the neighbours and later to her parents.
Her mother lodged a complaint with Sethiathope all-women police. The police booked the teenager under sections 332 (house trespass in order to commit an offence) of the BNS and sections 7 (sexual assault) and 8 (punishment for sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, and arrested him.
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