Protests over Pollachi sexual assault case rock region

Coimbatore: Police took action towards the accused in the Pollachi sexual assault case simplest after the intervention of political parties, DMK MP Kanimozhi, who led an enormous protest in Pollachi on Tuesday evening, said. “We didn't politicise the problem. The police department, which failed to take any action to start with, acted simplest after political outfits raised the problem. So, it got politicised.”
The DMK chief condemned the police for revealing the names of the victims. “Is is an offence to reveal the identification of victims of rape and sexual assault. Police not on time the arrest of the accused and leaked the names of the victims to forestall extra girls from accommodation complaints towards the perpetrators. The accused had been sexually abusing girls from 2012. So, police will have to reinvestigate cases of feminine suicides reported from Pollachi and surrounding areas from 2012,” she said.

The rural police arrested Kanimozhi and 650 cadres of DMK, CPI, CPM, Congress, AAP, TMMK, KDMK, Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam and All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) for conducting the protest with out permission. They had been later let off.

Cadres of the Students Federation of India (SFI) from the Government Arts College and Government Law College additionally staged protests in the town not easy action towards the accused.

More than 30 students from the arts faculty boycotted classes and staged a protest in front of the varsity. They raised slogans and demanded the arrest of all of the accused. As many as 56 SFI functionaries staged a protest close to the district collectorate on Tuesday afternoon. The town police arrested 56 students and saved them in a wedding corridor.

As many as 25 students from the Government Law College boycotted classes and staged protest in front of the varsity.


Meanwhile, chatting with reporters, BJP nationwide basic secretary Muralidhar Rao said the problem won't undermine the poll prospects of the NDA alliance in the state. “AIADMK is a huge birthday celebration and the governing birthday celebration. Somewhere, something has took place, which isn't desirable and not just right. As a political birthday celebration, they've taken action,” he said.


Rao, however, added that if the AIADMK leadership is noticed as insensitive or not justice-oriented, there can be a problem. “But I believe that AIADMK is acutely aware of the problem and will take action.”


In a petition to deputy commissioner of police L Balaji Saravanan on Tuesday, AIADMK district IT wing secretary R Sasikumar said that DMK was seeking to tarnish the photographs of AIADMK over the problem. “They additionally unfold rumours towards minister SP Velumani and deputy speaker Pollachi V Jayaraman. Stringent action will have to be taken towards DMK formative years wing deputy organisers Ranjithkumar and S Dhandayuthapani from Sulur for spreading rumours towards the ministers,” the petition said.


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