Man imprisoned to 20 years for sexual assault on eight-year-old girl

The Special Court for the trial of cases registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Coimbatore, has sentenced a man from Kerala to undergo 20 years of imprisonment for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl in 2021.

The Special court judge G. Kulasekaran awarded the punishment to Arun Kumar, son of Mani from Munnar in Idukki district of Kerala.

The police said that Kumar was working as a taxi driver. He had come to Coimbatore airport with a client in 2021 and visited a distant relative’s family. Kumar sexually assaulted the girl in the absence of others and threatened her not to disclose the incident to anyone. The girl disclosed her ordeals to her parents after Kumar left for Kerala, the police said.