Pollachi sexual assault case and trial | Explained

Coimbatore Women’s Court judge Nandini Devi will pronounce the quantum of sentence at noon.

The nine accused are N Rishwanth alias Sabarirajan (26), K Thirunavukkarasu (28), N Sathish (30), T Vasanthakumar (25), R Manivannan alias Mani (31), K Arulanantham (34), P Babu alias ‘Bike’ Babu (27), Haronimus Paul (29), and M Arunkumar (29).

The accused have been charged with criminal conspiracy, sexual harassment, rape, gang rape, and extortion, including blackmail, in the series of incidents between 2016 and 2018. The victims were mostly college girls, and the incident came to light after a student lodged a police complaint.

While the local police initially probed the matter, it was later transferred to CB-CID. The case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2019.