Two including tuition teacher held under POCSO near Tambaram
The tuition teacher had touched the girl inappropriately several times and sexually abused her after which the girl complained to her parents.
CHENNAI: Two persons including a tuition teacher and a beauty salon worker were arrested under the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) act in separate incidents near Tambaram.
In one of the incidents, the victim was a class 4 student.
The nine-year-old girl went for tuition classes at a centre in Pallikaranai.
The tuition teacher had touched the girl inappropriately several times and sexually abused her after which the girl complained to her parents.
After investigations, Pallikaranai Police registered a case and arrested the owner of the tuition centre, Manikandan.
In another incident, a worker at a beauty salon on Madambakkam main road had touched a 17-year-old girl inappropriately when she visited the salon for a haircut.
The minor girl is a first year college student and is a resident of Selaiyur, police said.
The girl informed her mother about the sexual abuse after which the family filed a police complaint.
Selaiyur AWPS (All Women Police Station) personnel registered a case and arrested the salon worker, Mohammed Mustafa (27) of Uttar Pradesh.
Both the accused were produced before a magistrate and remanded to judicial custody.
