A Chennai-based lawyer, P. Prem Anand, 57, was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl on board the Trivandrum Central – Chennai Central Mail near Erode on Sunday.
The victim’s parents alleged that the lawyer assaulted the girl around midnight after the train crossed Tiruppur. The victim raised an alarm and her parents alerted the TTE.
When the train arrived at the Erode Railway Junction, the lawyer was taken to the Government Railway Police Station. The victim’s parents lodged a complaint and the police registered a case under Section 9 (m) r/w 10 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. The lawyer was arrested and produced in the court and lodged at prison.
