Chennai doctor sexually assaults minor boy on pretext of ‘treatment’

In yet another shocking incident, a 14-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by a 59-year-old ayurvedic doctor in Chennai.

The survivor’s father, who is an autorickshaw driver told TNIE, "On April 27, he was playing near his house along with his friends when doctor R Radhakrishnan approached him on the pretext of giving him a hair therapy. Believing this, my son accompanied the doctor to his clinic, where he was sexually abused. However, my son did not tell us anything".

Noticing the boy’s abnormal behavior, the boy’s mother kept questioning him. The boy finally opened up when the doctor called him again for the same ‘treatment’.

A case was registered under Section IPC 363 (Punishment for kidnapping) and six sections of POCSO Act, 2012, against the doctor, who was arrested. The accused was later remanded in judicial custody by a magistrate court.