Pollachi sexual assault case: Grit of 19-year-old girl exposed a predatory gang of sexual offenders

The 19-year-old pupil told her parents of the incidental and lodged a ailment with the police. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

It was the grit and courageousness of a 19-year-old girl, a assemblage student, that exposed a pack of 9 predatory intersexual offenders based successful Pollachi, who targeted respective women from little socio-economic backgrounds betwixt 2016 and 2018.

According to investigators, N. Sabarirajan alias Rishwanth had befriended the miss and asked her to travel with him for a thrust connected February 12, 2019. While K. Thirunavukkarasu drove the car connected Dharapuram Road, Sabarirajan sexually abused her. M. Sathish and T. Vasanthakumar joined them midway.

Sathish filmed the enactment connected a mobile phone. They aboriginal utilized the footage to blackmail her. The 4 men had besides robbed her of a golden chain.

“The accused followed the modus operandi of sexually assaulting the victims and filming the enactment for blackmail. The miss told her household members astir the incidental aft immoderate days, pursuing which a ailment was lodged astatine the Pollachi East constabulary presumption connected February 24, 2019, which exposed the gang,” said V. Surendra Mohan, Public Prosecutor of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) successful the case. The probe by the section police, aboriginal by the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department and past by the CBI, led to the arrests of 5 much members of the pack — R. Mani alias Manivannan, P. Babu, T. Haronimus Paul, K. Arulanantham, and M. Arunkumar. “The 19-year-old pupil is believed to beryllium the past unfortunate targeted by the gang. She bravely came guardant and exposed the gang,” Mr. Mohan added.

Investigators were shocked to find galore videos of intersexual assaults, intersexual acts, and porn videos downloaded from the web successful the physics gadgets of the 9 men, chiefly from a mobile telephone of Thirunavukkarasu and a laptop of Sabarirajan. These videos aboriginal helped the constabulary and the CBI place the offenders and survivors.

“The men were chiefly driven by carnal pleasure, which yet led them to sexually battle women and blackmail them into letting them repetition the offence,” said 1 of the erstwhile investigators.

Published - May 14, 2025 12:27 americium IST