Man responsible for pregnancy of teenager arrested

Man responsible for pregnancy of teenage girl was arrested by the police near Krishnagiri on Thursday evening.

According to police, B. Selvam (34) hailing from Chinnamuthur village near KRP Dam junction road was arrested by a special team of police while he was waiting at the Keelkuppam bus stand. He was remanded to15 days judicial custody. An order to this effect was given by the Pochampalli Judicial Magistrate M. Saravanan.

The culprit was lodged in Salem Central Prison on Thursday night, police sources here said.

Raped schoolgirl gives birth in Krishnagiri

A 14-year-old school girl, who was allegedly raped by her neighbour some months ago, gave birth to a male child on Wednesday in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri district.

The girl, who was admitted to the Government Hospital in , gave birth to the baby boy after the doctors advised that an ‘abortion’ would endanger her life. Police said her school was informed since it was a case of a minor girl delivering a kid. The Krishnagiri Police then visited the hospital and recorded a statement from the girl. The accused was later quickly nabbed, arrested for raping a minor girl and remanded to judicial custody today, sources added. The minor girl was befriended by the accused Selvam, who worked in a petty shop run by the girl’s grandma, Police sources said on Thursday. Seduction Selvam over a period of time allured and seduced the girl, a ninth class student of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Arasampatti, before “repeatedly raping” her, sources said. This went unnoticed until her pregnancy was confirmed a few days ago. As the girl’s father is dead and her mother is working as casual labour in Chennai, her grandmother was unaware of the crime, police said.