Man held for assaulting minor girl

Coimbatore: A 46-year-old man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl near Kamarajapuram here on Thursday night.
The city all-woman police (west) identified the accused as K Anand. He is employed with a PVC door manufacturing unit at Kamarajapuram.
According to an investigation officer, the victim’s parents would leave home for work in the morning and return only in the evening. “So, the mother would drop the girl at her younger sister’s house in the same locality. On Thursday night, the girl was unable to sleep and started crying. When the girl’s aunt approached her to know what happened, she told her that Anand had given her chocolate and taken to the manufacturing unit, where he sexually assaulted her,” the officer said.
Immediately, the girl’s mother lodged a complaint with the all-woman police (west), who registered a case against Anand under Sections 5 (m)(l) read with 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act and Sections 376 (A)(B) and 506(i) of the Indian Penal Code. Police arrested him on Friday evening.
On Saturday, Anand was produced before the special court of Pocso cases that remanded him in judicial custody. He was subsequently lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison.