TheCoimbatore city police arrested a 44-year-old man for killing a Class 10student after sexually assaulting and dumping her body in the outskirts of thecity.
According to the police, Muthukumar, the accused, is a construction worker andwas known to the 14-year-old victim's family. The officials said that heconfessed that he committed the crime, he assaulted the girl and afterward, hestuffed the body in a plastic sack and threw it into thorny bushes.
The woman inher complaint said that after she, her mother and her elder daughter went towork, her younger daughter was alone at home and when she returned home by 4p.m., the girl was missing and her cell phone was switched off.
Investigationsrevealed that the accused was having an affair with the victim’smother. 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 thegold. The police found the decomposed body of the girl with her hands and feettied and a rope around her neck.
According tothe Deputy Commission of Police, E.S. Uma, he confessed the crime and said thathe had broken into the house and stole 1.75 sovereigns of gold to convince themother that the victim took the gold and eloped with someone.