Class IX boy booked for sexual abuse

The Mudaliarpet police on Thursday registered a case against a Class IX student of a government school in Puducherry for sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl. A Child Welfare Committee member informed that the accused was a friend of the girl’s brother and resided in the same neighbourhood. The girl who was profusely bleeding after the alleged abuse has been admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Women and Children’s Hospital.