Two men involved were then tracked by her brother and his friends, who beat them up and grabbed the men's mobile phones, which included recordings of at least three other girls whom the men might have coerced. When the men repeatedly blackmailed her and threatened to extort money from her, she chose to confide in her family. She kept the incident hidden from her family. They abandoned her in the middle of the road after she screamed and cried. They threatened to give them sexual favors and money if they wanted it, or they would post the video online. Two more men got in the car unexpectedly and the girl was forcibly undressed and videotaped, and a gold chain she was wearing was stolen by the four of them. He invited her to get into the car with him and his friend who was also another acquaintance of hers, and assured that they would speak on the way. On February 12, 2019, a 19-year-old college student in Pollachi received a call from an acquaintance who said he needed to speak with her alone about something important and told her to meet him near a bus stop.
According to some activists and political observers, the arrests were an attempt by the CBI and the union government to arm-twist the AIADMK to ally with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and to give more seats in the seat-sharing process of the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. One person arrested claimed that the racket hade connections with prominent party members. The AIADMK was criticized after the arrest of its functionary, with some news reports implying that the connection to the incident runs deeper within the party. The CBI made minimal progress before these arrests. The CBI arrested three more men involved in the incident in January 2021 including a functionary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). Later the five men were sent to the Salem central prison. The case was shifted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), another man surrendered before the judicial magistrate and confessed to raping and blackmailing women. The police arrested four men who were alleged to be involved in the rape and extortion ring.
There were protests across the state organized by students, political parties and various organizations to bring the perpetrators to justice.ĭemonstration to bring the perpetrators to justice, 2019
On the mobiles of the accused, police said they discovered dozens of video recordings of women being abused at a farmhouse belonging to one of the accused and some were leaked. According to media accounts, at least 200 women are sexually assaulted in the very same manner and the victims were college and school teachers, doctors, higher secondary school students from all over the state. The gang came into spotlight after the family of a 19-year-old college student who claimed to had been sexually assaulted and blackmailed complained to the police. The videos were later used to blackmail the women for sexual favors or money. The gang would entice women into isolated places after befriending them on social media and sexually assault them and filmed the act. The Pollachi sexual assault case refers to a case of rape and extortion of numerous women by a gang in Pollachi, Coimbatore in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The farm house belonging to one of the accused where women were sexually assaulted and filmed
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