Chennai: A 21-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a 17-year-old girl that led to the minor dying by suicide on Saturday, officials said.
Three days after the schoolgirl died allegedly by suicide in Chennai, leaving a note that said ‘a girl is safe only in the mother’s womb or the grave’, the 21-year-old college student has been arrested for sexual assault.
On Saturday, the Class 11 student’s mother found her hanging in their home on the outskirts of Chennai. The mother had been out for only an hour. She returned from the market to find the teen’s room bolted.
The young man confessed that he and the girl were close and he had harassed her, the police claimed. He has been charged under the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Her suicide note was found by the police. Titled, āStop Sexual Harassmentā, she wrote about the mental trauma sexual harassment caused to a victim. She appealed to parents to teach their sons how to respect girls in society.
‘Every parent should teach their sons to respect girls. Don’t trust relatives or teachers. The only safe place is a mother’s womb and the cemetery,’ read the letter. She said schools or a relativeās place were not safe.
The accused, now an engineering student at a college in Chennai, was arrested on Monday after the police analysed the girlās phone, officials said.