Pollachi sexual abuse case altered to rape

COIMBATORE: The CB-CID has altered the

Pollachi

sexual assault case into a rape case by invoking Section 376 (rape) of the

Indian Penal Code

against the five accused. On February 24, the Pollachi Town police filed the case under Sections 354 (A) (punishment for sexual harassment) and 354 (B) of the IPC, Section 66 (E) of the IT Act and Section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women (TNPHW) Act. The case was taken up by the CB-CID which altered it into a rape case on April 5. It is preparing to submit the preliminary chargesheet. If the case is proved, the accused can get life imprisonment.


According to CB-CID sources, R Manivannan, 30, of Aachipatti near Pollachi, who surrendered before the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court in Coimbatore on March 25, 2019, was taken into sevenday police custody. He confessed that he raped a few women along with K Thirunavukkarasu, 26, of Makkinampatti near Pollachi, N Sabarirajan, 25, of Jothi Nagar in Pollachi, N Sathish, 29, of Suleeswaranpatti near Pollachi, and T Vasanthakumar, of Pakkothipalayam near Pollachi. He told police they had taken videos of themselves committing the rape.