Hyderabad, June 30 -- Purna ChandraBadhavat, accused in the suicide case of journalist Swetcha Votarkar has been charged under the POCSO Act by the Chikkadpally police on Sunday, June 29.

The charges were levied after the victim's father's statement that the accused misbehaved with her minor daughter.

Badhavat who surrendered to the police on June 28 was sent to judicial custody on charges of abetment to suicide. The accused was booked following a complaint from Votarkar's father V Shankar, who alleged that Badhavath had promised her marriage and broke it.

According to a DC report, the Chikkadpally police registered a POCSO case against Badhavat and are yet to record the statement of her minor daughter. Before his arrest, Badhavath rel...