Tamil Nadu: College student sexually assaulted, murdered near Pollachi
Chennai, Apr 7 (UNI) In a shocking incident, a second year college student was found murdered with her throat slit at Poosaripatty near Pollachi and police on Sunday arrested one of the suspects in the case.
Police sources said the 20-year-old Pragathi, a native of Ottanchathiram in Dindigul district and studying in a college in Coimbatore, boarded a bus to her house on Friday evening after informing her parents.
Since she had not come home, her parents filed a complaint with the Coimbatore police, who got an information that a girl's body was found near a bush at Poosaripatty on the Pollachi-Dharapuram road, with her clothes torn and throat slit, on Saturday evening.
The body also bore several injury marks, though the jewellery worn by her remained intact, ruling out the possibility of murder for gain.
Police identified the body as that of missing Pragathi and sent it to Coimbatore Government Medical College and Hospital for post mortem, which today revealed that she was sexually assaulted before being murdered.
Four special teams formed to crack the case, analysed on her mobile call records and CCTV footages and arrested one Satish of Ottanchathiram, who was also said to be her relative.
Police quoting preliminary inquiries said that Satish has approached her parents with a marriage proposal, but they rejected it and fixed it with other person and the wedding was scheduled in June.
CCTV footages also revealed that she was abducted in a car near her college.
The incident has sent shock waves across the district as it comes at a time when the public outrage over the sensational serial sexual assault and blackmailing of several women in Pollachi was yet to die down.
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