Coimbatore: A special sub-inspector (SSI) of police attached to Race Course police station was arrested on Saturday for assaulting and harassing a woman, who was his relative, at Varadharajapuram on the outskirts of the city on Thursday. Another case has also been registered against him for setting her scooter ablaze at Uzhavar Sandhai at Singanallur on Friday morning.
Police identified the arrested as K Parthiban, 57, of Vellalore. An officer said the SSI was having an illicit affair with the 30-year-old relative women, who had separated from her husband and was living with her son in a rental house at Varadharajapuram. The woman, the officer said, started to avoid Parthiban and shifted to another house near Varadharajapuram two weeks ago without his knowledge. “Parthiban traced her whereabouts and visited her around 8am on Thursday in uniform. He assaulted her for avoiding him, abused her with filthy language and damaged her scooter.”