The Mahila Court in Cuddalore on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a 35-year-old autorickshaw driver under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, for murdering a 15-year-old boy after attempting to sodomise him. The court sentenced his wife to seven years rigorous term for destruction of evidence.
Special Public Prosecutor K. Selvipriya, said Jawahar Babu, the accused, lured the victim, a Plus One student who was returning home from tuition on April 21, 2014, into his house and attempted to sodomise him. When the boy panicked and resisted, Babu hit him on his head with a log and strangled him. He disposed the body in a gunny bag.
The case camp up on Wednesday before judge D. Lingeshwaran in the Mahila Court.