The
Coimbatore city police arrested a 44-year-old man for killing a Class 10
student after sexually assaulting and dumping her body in the outskirts of the
city.
According to the police, Muthukumar, the accused, is a construction worker and
was known to the 14-year-old victim's family. The officials said that he
confessed that he committed the crime, he assaulted the girl and afterward, he
stuffed the body in a plastic sack and threw it into thorny bushes.
The girl's mother lodged a complaint with the East Ramanathapuram all-women
police station on December 13, stating that her daughter was missing since December
11.
The woman in
her complaint said that after she, her mother and her elder daughter went to
work, her younger daughter was alone at home and when she returned home by 4
p.m., the girl was missing and her cell phone was switched off.
Investigations
revealed that the accused was having an affair with the victim’s
mother. The accused had borrowed 2.5 sovereigns of gold from the teen's mother,
had reportedly called the girl to his house under the pretext of returning the
gold. The police found the decomposed body of the girl with her hands and feet
tied and a rope around her neck.
According to
the Deputy Commission of Police, E.S. Uma, he confessed the crime and said that
he had broken into the house and stole 1.75 sovereigns of gold to convince the
mother that the victim took the gold and eloped with someone.
The teen’s mother, who is separated from her husband for the past eight years,
was living with her mother and two daughters aged 17 and 14.
Muthukumar was produced before the judicial magistrate court and remanded to
custody.