VELLORE: After years of experiencing sexual harassment from her own father, a teenage girl and her sister were pushed to strangulate him to death two days ago at Asanellikuppam village near Arakkonam. After initially booking them on charges of murder, the police later went on to alter the case and let them free. “It was homicide, but not amounting to murder. The incident occurred in a pure sense of self-defence. We will submit a report to the court and the court will decide on further course of action,” said IG P (North Zone) C Sylendra Babu.“My sister was a victim of sexual harassment in the hands of our father for so many years. We tried to advise him and even dissuaded him from drinking, but he did not listen to us,” said 18-year-old Radha.Radha along with 19-year-old Mala, strangled their father Mohan (38), a coolie, on Monday morning around 9.30 am in front of their mother Vidhya. “We were chatting with our mother without knowing what was going to happen in our life in the next few minutes. Our father came home drunk and pounced on our sister and tried to harass her sexually. She tried to stop him by putting her dupatta around his neck and pushed him, but he resisted. Unable to witness the misery of my sister we strangled him using the dupatta,” she said.Radha said that whenever he came home drunk, her sister faced unbearable psychological and physical assault. “He used to bite her and harass her sexually. Monday’s incident was the height of this plight and the pressure which had mounted for all these years,” she added.The teenage girls along with their mother had even lodged a complaint with Arakkonam All Women Police Station against on August 29 last year stating that Mohan assaulted them frequently. “We enquired on the same day and counselled Mohan not to assault his daughters and wife. In fact, I spotted a bite mark on the shoulder of the elder daughter and asked her about it. But she said Mohan had bitten her in a drunken state,” said Inspector J Kalaiarasi. “After Monday’s incident, the girls said that they did not reveal the harassment as it would spoil their future and cause great humiliation,” the inspector noted.(The names of the victim, her sister and mother have been changed to protect their identity)
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