The family has been bombarded with attention by the media and PollachiвЂ™s residents. вЂњMy request is to leave us alone,вЂќ said her brother when TOI called him.

Lakshmi has since shut herself up at home and refused to meet anyone. It issued an order which revealed LakshmiвЂ™s actual name and her college. On March 13, the Tamil Nadu department of home did something that damaged the case irreparably. We found four video clips, not hundreds,вЂќ said Coimbatore superintendent of police R Pandirarajan. вЂњOur investigations show only these four men were involved. Some put the number of victims at вЂњmore than 60вЂќ. Soon reports emerged that police had found hundreds of video clips of rape and assaults, that a large network of sexual predators was involved. Other women called police to say they too had been sexually abused. As news of the crime spread in Pollachi, the town erupted. Despite the four confirmed video clips of sexual assault, no complaints have been filed by survivors. Even LakshmiвЂ™s FIR is only about molestation and physical assault. Tamil Nadu erupts in anger over Pollachi sex scandal None of this has made its way into the FIR. Later, they would blackmail her for money or sexual favours.вЂќ Others would join in, raping the woman and making videos. вЂњSubsequently, marriage would be proposed and meeting set up, mostly at the farm house of Thirunavukkarasu at Chinnappampalayam, 20 km from Pollachi. вЂњIn some cases they used fake IDs to lure women they didnвЂ™t know,вЂќ said an officer who interrogated the accused. Almost all the women, said police, were from Pollachi. The survivorвЂ™s kin told TOI they were reluctant to file a complaint fearing the videos might be leaked. The remaining three took videos and then raped her,вЂќ said a police officer. He took her to a farm house where he raped her. вЂњA woman who called us said Sabarirajan had stalked her for months and proposed to marry her. The accused are affluent by Pollachi standards: Thirunavukkarasu is an MBA graduate who runs a finance firm Sathish, 29, owns a garment store and Sabarirajan, 25, is an engineering graduate. The state on Tuesday told the Madras high court that it had decided to transfer all FIRs registered in connection with the Pollachi sexual abuse case to the CBI вЂњThe gang used to look out for college students, working women or housewives who they knew socially, through friends or acquaintances,вЂќ an officer said. Tamil Nadu: CBI to probe all Pollachi abuse-related cases He and some of his friends tracked Sabarirajan and the others, including a financier named K Thirunavukkarasu, and assaulted them. She went home in tears and told her brother about the attack. As she resisted, Lakshmi was shocked to see one of them shooting a video. Soon, Sabarirajan tried to remove her clothes. After she got in, she realized there were three other men inside. Lakshmi (name changed) went to Makkinampatti, where Sabarirajan was waiting in a car.

She had no idea of the horror that awaited her. A month ago, he had sent a WhatsApp text to the 19-year old girl, telling her he was her senior in college. It began with a call that came on February 12 to Lakshmi from Sabarirajan. Government Law College students staged a sit-in protest on the campus here for second consecutive day on Wednesday. Pollachi sexual harassment: Coimbatore law college students stage protest

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