KOZHIKODE: Police have detained two minor girls on charges of hacking a 70-year-old man to death after he reportedly tried to sexually assault their mother at Ayiramkolly under Ambalavayal police station limits in Wayanad on Tuesday.
The girls' mother has also been arrested under IPC section 302 for the murder of the man who is her relative. The girls and their mother surrendered before Ambalavayal police in the afternoon. They were staying in a shed near the house of the deceased.
The body of the man was found stacked in a sack and dumped in a 3-ft-deep pit in an adjacent plot. A dismembered portion of his right leg from below the knee was recovered from near a waste treatment plant some three km away.
Police said the girls, aged 15 and 16, have been housed in a shelter home and will be produced before the Juvenile Justice Board on Wednesday. The wife of the deceased man had gone to Kozhikode when the incident took place, they said.
As per the girls' statement, they hacked the man after he tried to sexually assault their mother around 11am. They allegedly tried to prevent the assault, but after the man persisted with the attack they hacked him in the head and neck, police said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
