COIMBATORE: A 20-year-old youth was arrested on Wednesday for attempting to sexually assault a 90-year-old woman at her house near a village in Pollachi.
The accused, A Mydeen, 20, from Kumaran Nagar at Pollachi, was a daily wage labourer and was hooked to alcohol, police said.
The 90-year-old woman was asleep in a separate room of her house located in an agricultural field in a village near Pollachi on Tuesday night. Her 55-year-old son, a farmer, was sleeping in the next room along with his family. Around 11 pm, his mother raised an alarm and her son rushed to her rescue when he saw Mydeen running out of the house.
On Wednesday, her son and relatives nabbed the youth and handed him over to Pollachi west police station, where he was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape) read with 511.
Police said Mydeen was inebriated when he entered the house of the elderly woman. A magistrate court remanded him to judicial custody.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)