71-yr-old man in judicial custody for impregnating granddaughter

CHENNAI: A 71-year-old man was arrested by the Police at Thirukoilur in Kallikuruchi under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Pocso Act, on charges of impregnating his 15-year-old granddaughter.

Two women who assisted him in aborting the foetus were also arrested.

The three were produced before the court which promptly remanded them to judicial custody.

The 15-year-old granddaughter and her younger brother were staying with the grandfather who was sexually abusing the girl for the past three years.

The local people coming to know of the issue alerted the village officer of Thirukoilur who informed the all-women police that took him into custody along with his two women accomplices - a retired woman nurse and another woman.

Police charged him under Section 6 (Punishment for aggravated penetrative sexual assault), 5 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault), 5(j) (whoever commits penetrative sexual assault on a child), 5(j)(ii) (makes a child pregnant as a consequence of sexual assault), and 17 (punishment for abetment) of the Protection of Children from Sexual offences (Pocso) Act, 2012.