Man arrested for sexually assaulting five-year-old girl in Padubidri
Padubidiri: The Padubidri police has arrested a man in connection with a case of assaulting a five-year-old girl.
The arrested accused has been identified as Mufeezul Shiekh (26), a resident of West Bengal's Murshidabad.
The police further informed that Mufeezul took the girl to his room on the pretext of giving her a biscuit, after informing the girl's parents, and sexually assaulted her.
Mufeezul who was employed at an underconstruction building here at Padubidri, reportedly assaulted the 5 year old girl, who was the daughter of a couple working at the same site. Following which the girl informed her parents that she is experiencing stomach pain, upon which the parents then took her to the Padubidri Primary Health Centre, During the examination, doctors at the health centre suspected that the girl might have been sexually assaulted.
Later, the girl was taken to Udupi Government Children's Hospital by the female constable of Padubidre police station, along with her father and mother, where the doctors confirmed about the assault when the girl underwent a medical examination, the police said.
The Padubidri police has arrested the accused and has registered the man under the POCSO act.
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UP: Blood-soaked body of elderly man found in Hathras
Hathras (UP) (PTI): The blood-soaked body of an elderly man was found inside his house in Paharpur village here on Tuesday morning, police said.
The deceased, Jagdish Prasad Sharma, 75, who lived alone, had gone to sleep in his house on Monday night, officials said.
On Tuesday morning, his blood-soaked body was lying on a cot, with marks on his head and body indicating blows from a sharp-edged weapon, they said, adding that the police suspect murder.
Police and forensic teams reached the spot upon receiving information and sent the body for a post-mortem, they said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Ramanand Kushwaha said that Sharma, a retired Health Department employee, had been living alone since his wife's death during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He owned around 20-25 bighas of land and was also engaged in money lending, the officer said.
