16 March 2021
Members of various Tamil organisations hold placards and raise slogans during a protest against the Pollachi sexual assault case in Chennai, on 15 March 2019. Both the investigations of the Tamil Nadu Police and the CBI are riddled with procedural lapses and inaction, which erases any role of the police or senior members of the AIADMK. PTI
Members of various Tamil organisations hold placards and raise slogans during a protest against the Pollachi sexual assault case in Chennai, on 15 March 2019. Both the investigations of the Tamil Nadu Police and the CBI are riddled with procedural lapses and inaction, which erases any role of the police or senior members of the AIADMK.
Updated Jan 06, 2021 | 14:34 IST
Pollachi sexual assault case: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president MK Stalin has alleged that the entire matter was perpetrated by people linked to the AIADMK. Screengrab | Photo Credit: Times Now
Coimbatore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) functionary and two of his friends in connection with a case of sexual harassment of women by a gang at Tamil Nadu’s Pollachi in 2019. The AIADMK has now expelled party’s Pollachi town Students Wing secretary K Arunanandam.
The trio have been remanded to 14-day judicial custody by the Mahila court in Coimbatore.