POLLACHI (COIMBATORE): Pollachi is a small the town, some 45 km south of Coimbatore. It’s a spot where not anything a lot occurs. So when its residents learnt of a gaggle of guys that have been systematically targeting girls, ensnaring them, sexually abusing them after which blackmailing them into silence, they were shocked. “In Pollachi?” That was once what many requested.
That may in all probability be some of the reasons why the ladies so easily depended on the predators.
It began with a call that got here on February 12 to Lakshmi from Sabarirajan. A month ago, he had despatched a WhatsApp text to the 19-yearold lady, telling her he was once her senior in college. They struck up a friendship. On the fateful day, he requested her out. She had no concept of the horror that awaited her. Or Pollachi.
Lakshmi (title modified) went to Makkinampatti, where Sabarirajan was once waiting in a automotive. After she got in, she realized there were 3 other men inside. Soon, Sabarirajan attempted to take away her garments. As she resisted, Lakshmi was once surprised to peer one in every of them taking pictures a video.
She went house in tears and advised her brother about the assault. He and a few of his friends tracked Sabarirajan and the others, together with a financier named K Thirunavukkarasu, and assaulted them. A week later, Lakshmi filed an FIR. That was once when the subject blew up.
By then, Thirunavukkarasu had gone underground, though police arrested Sabarirajan, his friends T Vasanth Kumar and N Sathish on February 25. Thirunavukkarasu was once stuck on March 5. In the telephones of the boys, police claimed they discovered 4 video clips showing girls being assaulted, together with one in every of a lady being brutally whipped for refusing to take off her leggings.
Later, police nabbed A Nagaraj, a chum of Thirunavukkarasu, who with 3 other men allegedly beat up Lakshmi’s brother afterwards. Nagaraj was once a member of the AIADMK.
“The gang used to look out for college kids, working girls or housewives who they knew socially, via friends or acquaintances,” an officer stated. The accused are prosperous via Pollachi requirements: Thirunavukkarasu is an MBA graduate who runs a finance company; Sathish, 29, owns a garment retailer and Sabarirajan, 25, is an engineering graduate.
“A girl who referred to as us stated Sabarirajan had stalked her for months and proposed to marry her. She ultimately agreed. He took her to a farm area where he raped her. The final 3 took videos after which raped her,” stated a police officer. The survivor’s kin advised IdealNews they were reluctant to document a grievance fearing the videos might be leaked. Almost all of the girls, stated police, were from Pollachi.
“In some circumstances they used faux IDs to lure girls they didn’t know,” stated an officer who interrogated the accused. “Subsequently, marriage could be proposed and meeting set up, mostly at the farm area of Thirunavukkarasu at Chinnappampalayam, 20 km from Pollachi. Others would join in, raping the girl and making videos. Later, they would blackmail her for money or sexual favours.”
None of this has made its way into the FIR. Even Lakshmi’s FIR is handiest about molestation and bodily attack. Despite the 4 showed video clips of sexual attack, no court cases have been filed via survivors.
As news of the crime unfold in Pollachi, the town erupted. Other girls referred to as police to say they too have been sexually abused. Soon experiences emerged that police had found loads of video clips of rape and attacks, that an enormous community of sexual predators was once concerned. Some put the selection of sufferers at “greater than 60”.
Police denied this declare. “Our investigations display handiest those 4 men were concerned. We found 4 video clips, now not loads,” stated Coimbatore superintendent of police R Pandirarajan.
On March 13, the Tamil Nadu department of house did one thing that damaged the case irreparably. It issued an order which revealed Lakshmi’s precise title and her college.
Lakshmi has since shut herself up at house and refused to fulfill any individual. “My request is to depart us alone,” stated her brother when IdealNews referred to as him. The circle of relatives has been bombarded with attention via the media and Pollachi’s residents.
Cops stated revealing Lakshmi’s title had made it difficult for others to muster the braveness to report FIRs. The case has now been given to the CBCID. There have been political repercussions too, with AIADMK expelling Nagaraj amid allegations of patronage to the accused men.
Pollachi itself appears to be like find it irresistible has modified eternally. It’s as though an evil drive has left its soul bruised. If there’s something that the town hopes for, it's that the survivors talk up some day.
That may in all probability be some of the reasons why the ladies so easily depended on the predators.
It began with a call that got here on February 12 to Lakshmi from Sabarirajan. A month ago, he had despatched a WhatsApp text to the 19-yearold lady, telling her he was once her senior in college. They struck up a friendship. On the fateful day, he requested her out. She had no concept of the horror that awaited her. Or Pollachi.
Lakshmi (title modified) went to Makkinampatti, where Sabarirajan was once waiting in a automotive. After she got in, she realized there were 3 other men inside. Soon, Sabarirajan attempted to take away her garments. As she resisted, Lakshmi was once surprised to peer one in every of them taking pictures a video.
She went house in tears and advised her brother about the assault. He and a few of his friends tracked Sabarirajan and the others, together with a financier named K Thirunavukkarasu, and assaulted them. A week later, Lakshmi filed an FIR. That was once when the subject blew up.
By then, Thirunavukkarasu had gone underground, though police arrested Sabarirajan, his friends T Vasanth Kumar and N Sathish on February 25. Thirunavukkarasu was once stuck on March 5. In the telephones of the boys, police claimed they discovered 4 video clips showing girls being assaulted, together with one in every of a lady being brutally whipped for refusing to take off her leggings.
Later, police nabbed A Nagaraj, a chum of Thirunavukkarasu, who with 3 other men allegedly beat up Lakshmi’s brother afterwards. Nagaraj was once a member of the AIADMK.
“The gang used to look out for college kids, working girls or housewives who they knew socially, via friends or acquaintances,” an officer stated. The accused are prosperous via Pollachi requirements: Thirunavukkarasu is an MBA graduate who runs a finance company; Sathish, 29, owns a garment retailer and Sabarirajan, 25, is an engineering graduate.
“A girl who referred to as us stated Sabarirajan had stalked her for months and proposed to marry her. She ultimately agreed. He took her to a farm area where he raped her. The final 3 took videos after which raped her,” stated a police officer. The survivor’s kin advised IdealNews they were reluctant to document a grievance fearing the videos might be leaked. Almost all of the girls, stated police, were from Pollachi.
“In some circumstances they used faux IDs to lure girls they didn’t know,” stated an officer who interrogated the accused. “Subsequently, marriage could be proposed and meeting set up, mostly at the farm area of Thirunavukkarasu at Chinnappampalayam, 20 km from Pollachi. Others would join in, raping the girl and making videos. Later, they would blackmail her for money or sexual favours.”
None of this has made its way into the FIR. Even Lakshmi’s FIR is handiest about molestation and bodily attack. Despite the 4 showed video clips of sexual attack, no court cases have been filed via survivors.
As news of the crime unfold in Pollachi, the town erupted. Other girls referred to as police to say they too have been sexually abused. Soon experiences emerged that police had found loads of video clips of rape and attacks, that an enormous community of sexual predators was once concerned. Some put the selection of sufferers at “greater than 60”.
Police denied this declare. “Our investigations display handiest those 4 men were concerned. We found 4 video clips, now not loads,” stated Coimbatore superintendent of police R Pandirarajan.
On March 13, the Tamil Nadu department of house did one thing that damaged the case irreparably. It issued an order which revealed Lakshmi’s precise title and her college.
Lakshmi has since shut herself up at house and refused to fulfill any individual. “My request is to depart us alone,” stated her brother when IdealNews referred to as him. The circle of relatives has been bombarded with attention via the media and Pollachi’s residents.
Cops stated revealing Lakshmi’s title had made it difficult for others to muster the braveness to report FIRs. The case has now been given to the CBCID. There have been political repercussions too, with AIADMK expelling Nagaraj amid allegations of patronage to the accused men.
Pollachi itself appears to be like find it irresistible has modified eternally. It’s as though an evil drive has left its soul bruised. If there’s something that the town hopes for, it's that the survivors talk up some day.
Scandal that broke Pollachi’s peace — and innocence
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