Sexual assault on nine-year-old girl: Case filed against father who handed over 17-year-old to police

KOCHI: A case has been registered against a father who detained a 17-year-old boy and handed him over to the police for sexually assaulting his nine-year-old daughter. A case has been registered against the girl's father for allegedly assaulting the 17-year-old. Congress cordoned off the Kadavanthra police station, alleging that an attempt is being made to sabotage the POCSO case and that the case had been registered against the father as part of that. The police have asked the girl's parents to appear at the station on Monday. Both families are CPM supporters.

The incident took place in broad daylight on November 25 in Kadavanthra. The complaint is that a 17-year-old sexually assaulted two girls, aged nine and seven, while they were cycling on the road. After the girl complained to her father, her father checked the CCTV footage and arrested the 17-year-old and handed him over to the police. The girl's relatives alleged that the 17-year-old's relatives and some CPM workers had come to demand that the case be withdrawn and that they had offered money.

The police registered the case after the 17-year-old boy filed a complaint against the girl's father, alleging that he had been beaten up. CCTV footage of the girl's father assaulting the 17-year-old boy had also come to light. Uma Thomas MLA and DCC Chairman Muhammed Shias, who led the station blockade, alleged that the father was being framed in a false case and the POCSO case was being sabotaged because he did not agree to a compromise. Police sources said that the case against the girl's father will also remain, as there is a complaint and CCTV footage of the 17-year-old being beaten up.