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Chennai: A rowdy was arrested under the Pocso Act for sexually assaulting a Class 8 girl after promising to marry her in Royapettah. On July 12, the 13-year-old girl did not return home after school in the evening. Her parents searched for her at her school where teachers informed them that the girl was absent that day. The girl’s phone was also switched off. Alarmed, the girl’s mother enquired about her whereabouts from her friends when some of her friends informed her that she was at the house of the person engaged to her elder sister. Following this, the girl’s mother lodged a complaint at the all-women Royapettah police station on Monday. Police traced the girl and the man and the two appeared before the investigating officer on Monday evening. Investigations revealed that she had eloped with Mani, alias Thikkuvai Manikandan, who was involved in more than 10 cases, including assault. She told police that she eloped with him after he promised to marry her. He took her to his girlfriend’s house and sexually assaulted her there. The all-women police force arrested Manikandan under the Pocso Act and he was remanded in judicial custody.

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