May 18, 2013: 60-year-old man held for raping child in Madurai

TNN | May 18, 2013, 02.07 AM IST
MADURAI: A 60-year-old man was arrested by the Koodalpudur police for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl child, on Tuesday.

Police said that the accused, who was arrested on Thursday, has been identified as Periyakaruppan of Mettupatti near Koodalpudur on Thursday. Periyakaruppan is a barber by profession. He was a friend of Rajan, the father of the victim from Koodalpudur for the last 10 years. Periyakaruppan has been arrested based on the complaint from the victim's mother Gomathi, police said.

Police said that Periyakaruppan would often visit Rajan's family. He was in the habit of buying eats for the child every time he visited the house. During one such visit on Tuesday, he did not purchase anything. In the guise of buying some eatable for the girl, he took her on his two-wheeler after informing her parents.

However, Periyakaruppan took the girl inside an abandoned building in Koodalpudur area opposite to the BSNL telephone exchange. There he allegedly raped the girl and later left her in the house when Rajan and Gomathi were not present. The incident came to light when the girl disclosed the incident to her parents upon their arrival. However, the parents preferred a police complaint only on Thursday after they held talks with the villagers. Police, who registered rape case against Periyakaruppan on Thursday arrested him on the same day.
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