ALAPPUZHA: A private bus cleaner was arrested on Friday for sexually assaulting a 90-year-old woman at Mavelikara on Wednesday night. The accused, Girish, 22, Bindu Bahavan, Kandiyoor, Mavelikara, was charged with rape, house-break and unnatural sex, and remanded in judicial custody by the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Mavelikara. Girish, the woman’s neighbour, was working as a private bus employee, the police said.
She was living with her daughter who had gone for a festival at the nearby temple on Wednesday night when the incident took place. “He slipped into the house by breaking the roof tiles. The doctors at the Mavelikara district hospital where she was admitted confirmed that she was subjected to sexual assault and that she had sustained injures in her chest, face and private parts,” said Mr P. Sreekumar, Circle Inspector, Mavelikara. The incident came to light when her daughter returned home on Thursday morning and found her unconscious, the police said.
