Ernakulam: Police arrested three persons, including a woman, in the case of the rape of a woman aged 75, here on Wednesday. Perumbavoor Chembarakki Vazhappillil Mohammed Shafi (50), Pangod Iruppachira Asharimoolayil Omana (66), and Omana’s son Manoj Krishnankutty (46) have been arrested by the police. All the three accused would be produced before the court on Wednesday.
Locals have informed the Police that the trio has been involved in many anti-social activities for quite some time now. The Police have confirmed that Shafi was the one who raped the woman.
Mohammed Shafi, the driver of a goods carrier vehicle, had reached a private company near the old woman’s house to deliver goods, on Sunday. Omana always used to ‘arrange’ for Shafi’s immoral activities at her house.
According to the Police, Shafi, the prime accused, told Omana that he ‘wanted a woman’, on Sunday. That was when Omana spotted the old woman, who suffers from mild memory problems, reach the shop near her house to buy some tobacco. Omana who stood nearby told the woman that she would give her tobacco and took her along to Omana’s house.
The driver waited at the house attacked the old woman immediately on she reaching Omana’s house. The old woman tried to resist him. However, she was physically overpowered and brutally raped by Shafi. Later in the evening, Omana took the old woman, who suffered from injuries all over her body and in a debilitated state, in an autorickshaw and dropped her at her house.
The old woman had told her family that she was unwell. She was then taken to a private hospital in Pazhanganad immediately. As the injuries were severe, she was shifted to Kolenchery Medical College Hospital on Sunday night. In the medical examination carried out at the Kolenchery Hospital, it was found that the woman had suffered from brutal sexual abuse. The Hospital authorities informed Puthencruz Police immediately.