

Manivannan, alias Mani, had been arrested after he surrendered before the chief judicial magistrate’s court in Coimbatore in March 2019.

In addition to the four accused, a fifth accused, R Manivannan, was arrested was is said to have confessed to raping ‘a few women’ along with the other four. These arrests are in addition to the four people first booked by the police in the case - Sabarirajan, Thirunavukkarasu, Sathish and Vasanthkumar. Arunathalam is the Pollachi town secretary of AIADMK student wing.Īccording to sources the three accused belonged to the same gang as the five other men arrested earlier in the case. The three people who have been arrested by the CBI are Arulanatham (34), Heron Paul (29), and Babu (30). In a big development in the Pollachi sexual assault case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested three more accused - of which one person is linked to the AIADMK - in connection with sexual assault and extortion case. The case relates to a complaint filed by a 19-year-old woman in 2019, who had said that she was sexually assaulted by four men in a car, and the act videographed.
