Protesters stage demonstration against alleged sexual assault on five-year-old girl

They dispersed past midnight following an assurance from Police Commissioner

A demonstration demanding police action into an alleged sexual assault case involving a five-year-old girl at a private school in Tiruppur on Friday evening snowballed into a larger agitation that lasted for over four hours. The hundreds of protesters dispersed past midnight after the visit of Tiruppur City Commissioner of Police V. Vanitha.

Speaking to the mediapersons, she said that a woman lodged a complaint at the All Women Police Station – Tiruppur North on Friday that a man had allegedly touched her daughter studying L.K.G in an inappropriate manner on the school premises. A case was registered and the process of reviewing CCTV footage from the school to ascertain the identity of the accused began.

“There was a gap in communication of information between the police and the public,” Ms. Vanitha said, because of which the protesters had gathered in large numbers alleging lack of action.