Krishnagiri child’s rape and death: activists raise concern over not invoking POCSO Act against investigation officer

Activists have raised serious concern over the original Investigation Officer (IO) not invoking the POCSO Act in the rape and murder of a two-and-a-half year old girl in Anchetty, Krishnagiri, in December last year, despite the post-mortem report establishing sexual assault.

The investigating officer of the case Sumitha (since suspended), who was then Inspector of Anchetty police station, had ignored the post-mortem report produced in the first week of murder indicating rape and murder. She had failed to investigate the case as such allowing it to remain as a case of unnatural death with the accused at large. It was only in February, a new inspector of the Anchetty station took up the post-mortem report and revised the charges to rape and murder. The victim’s mother’s intimate partner was arrested for the heinous crime.