The Juvenile Justice Board of Karur, on Wednesday ordered a youth who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a minor girl, to assist a doctor in the Kulithalai Government Hospital for one month.
According to the prosecution, K. Gunasekaran of Kandankudi near Kulithalai, who was in love with a 15-year girl of a village near Ayyarmalai, took her to a lake at Sivayam on July 24, 2014 and sexually assaulted her.
Based on a complaint preferred by the girl, Gunasekaran was booked under sections 366 (A) read with 5 (I) of Indian Penal Code and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) by the All Women Police in Kulithalai. Since the accused was minor at the time of the crime, the trial was conducted in the Karur Juvenile Justice Board.
Judicial Magistrate P. Mohanavalli of Juvenile Justice Board of Karur, who delivered the judgement, pointed out that the accused had crossed 18 years of age.
In order to make him repent for the offence he had committed while he was a juvenile, the Judicial Magistrate ordered Gunasekaran to assist a doctor at the Intensive Care Unit in Kulithalai Government Hospital for one month between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m.