Hours before retiring, crime squad fulfils female CI’s desire, arrest man who impregnated daughter

KASARGOD: Woman circle inspector Shaji Francis and her team with the help of DySP’s crime squad arrested a native of Kasargod who sexually abused his 15-year-old daughter and impregnated her. The woman circle inspector retired from service after completing her desire to nab him before her service ends.

The Kasargod crime squad members fulfilled her desire on the eve of her retirement day. She had informed DySP P P Sadanandan her wish to arrest the POCSO case accused before her retirement. The crime squad took over the mission to help following the direction from DySP district crime squad that this should be the gift given to the woman circle inspector who is retiring after 32 years of service.

The man after sexually abusing his daughter many times had accommodated her in a hostel in Kanhangad. Her mother after informed by hotel authorities that she has stomach pain took her to Kasargd General Hospital and on examination found her to be pregnant. Her father then took her to Mangaluru and Udippi to get her aborted but it did not happen. The doctor who examined her informed the police and following that a case was registered at the Kasargod women’s police station on April 5. The accused who knew this fled to Mangaluru.

When the police recorded her detailed statement, she revealed that her father sexually abused her. The accused, who went into hiding in Mangalore, Ullal and Udupi, reached Kannur on May 14 and a few days later reached Covid Prevention Camp in Kozhikode where those wandering in streets were accommodated. He was taken into custody from Kozhikode Covid Detention Centre.

Despite Covid threat, a team led by crime squad sub inspectors C K Balakrishnan, Narayanan Nair, ASI Lakshmi Narayanan, Aboobacker Kallayi, SCPOs Sivakumar Udinoor, Rajesh Maniyat, Austin Thampi, Shajeesh, Bindu, Shailaja and Sanila conducted a probe in Kerala and Karnataka and then nabbed him.