Summary:
more-inThe city police on Tuesday arrested 17 persons, including the prime accused, a 56-year-old lift operator, for aggravated sexual assault on a 11-year-old hearing-impaired girl in an apartment in Ayanavaram. It was lift operator Ravikumar who initiated the sexual assault, using isolated places in the apartment complex to commit the offence. In an unexpected development, lawyers thrashed them when they were produced in a court on the High Court campus. Remanded till July 31The suspects were produced before Mahila Court on Tuesday, which remanded them in judicial custody until July 31. The accused were apprehended on a complaint by the girl’s mother, lodged with the All Women Police, Ayanavaram, on Monday..