A councillor of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl, following which he was expelled from the party.

According to reports, DMK’s Virudhachalam Municipality 30th Ward councillor Pakirisamy was arrested by the police last night for the allegedly raping a six-year-old girl.

A senior police official said the minor’s parents filed complaint alleging that Pakirisamy—a resident of Virudhachalam near Mettukkuppam in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district— allegedly raped the girl enrolled at his nursery school in Shakti Nagar area.

He said that as per the complaint by the victim’s parents, Parikisamy raped the minor girl inside the school premises.

The official said that based on the parents’ complaint, a case was registered under the POCSO Act by the Virudhachalam All Women Police and the girl was taken to the Virudhachalam Government Hospital for medical examination where doctors confirmed that she had been raped, adding that the councillor was arrested shortly after.

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Meanwhile, as soon as the news of Parikisamy’s arrest broke, the DMK stripped the accused from the party’s primary membership and all removed him from all party posts.

Speaking in the Assembly, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said the councillor has been expelled from the party at all levels and assured crimes against women and children will not be tolerated in the DMK-ruled state.

Giving details, Stalin said that on April 11, the child complained of stomach ache after she returned from school. The parents took her to a private hospital where doctors told them that the 6-year-old had been raped.

He said that Pakirisamy was arrested shortly, after a complaint by the victim’s mother and the DMK high command removed him from basic cadre post and dismissed him from the party, adding that he has ordered a detailed probe into the incident.

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In a shocking incident, a man allegedly hurled a bottle of acid on his wife and her lawyers at court complex in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on Thursday, officials said.

According to the police, the victim, Kavitha had reached the district court complex in Coimbatore in connection with a hearing of a case when her husband, Sivakumar, brazenly threw a bottle of acid at her face, injuring her and at least three others in the attack.

The victims, Kavitha and her lawyers, sustained burn injuries in the acid attack and were rushed to a nearby government hospital for medical attention.

An official said Sivakumar was overpowered and pinned down by some lawyers who witnessed the incident and later handed over to the police.

Giving details he said that police saved Sivakumar from a mob that gathered after the attack and wanted to thrash him, adding that the accused had carried the acid in a water bottle.

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The official further said that the accused has been arrested and a case registered against him under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), adding that further investigation is underway to determine Sivakumar’s motive behind the attack.

In a similar incident, a shocking video emerged back in January, where a man from the Cooperganj area of UP’s Kanpur claimed that his wife threw acid on his face.

As per reports at the time, a heated argument broke out between the couple, where the husband asked her why she came so late home, and the agitated lady lost her temper and threw acid from the bottle on his face.

A video of the incident had gone viral on social media platforms.

With an injured face, the victim went to the police station and registered his complaint about the incident. After investigating and questioning him, police arrested the woman for the offense.

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A massive fire engulfed a firecracker unit in Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district on Wednesday leaving at least seven people dead while 15 others received severe burn injuries, reports said.

As per reports, an enormous blaze consumed a firecracker making unit at Vazhathottam, 10 kilometers from Kanchipuram, killing at least seven people and leaving fifteen others wounded.

A report quoted Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services DGP, Abhash Kumar as saying that the building collapsed due to the gigantic inferno and many people are still feared trapped inside. The officer said that a joint rescue operation was launched by the firemen, the Kanchipuram district police along with Rescue Services personnel and local residents to pull out survivors from the torched building.

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DGP Kumar said the firecracker unit had a valid license and that an investigation has been launched to ascertain the exact cause of the fire.

Local reports said that the injured, who suffered burn injuries, have been rushed nearby hospital for medical attention.

More details are awaited.

In a similar incident, ten people, including three children, were injured after a fire erupted at a seven-storey residential building in Mumbai’s Mulund West last week. The incident happened at around 2:55 pm at the Jagruti Society in Vithhal Nagar.

Rescue services and firemen successfully had rescued 80 people trapped in the burning building.

Officials at the time had said that the fire out in the electric meter room on the ground floor of the building and the smoke from the meter room spread to all its seven floors.

Fire brigade chief Sanjay Manjrekar said it was not a major fire but the smoke had spread to all the floors. He had said that people got scared of the smoke, came running and got trapped.

The official said that the fire was confined to electric wiring, electric installation, electric main cables, all meters, all switches, etc. in a common electric meter cabin on the ground floor plus the upper seven floored residential building.

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