The Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) on Monday filed a voluminous charge sheet in the case relating to the blackmail and repeated rape of a woman by seven persons, including three juveniles. Separate charge sheets were filed against the accused adults and the minor boys.
The CB-CID Deputy Superintendent of Police, S.S. Vinothini, filed a 806-page charge sheet against the four adults — Hariharan, Madasamy, Praveen and Junaith Ahmed — before Additional district Judge B.C. Gopinath, who holds additional charge of the Special Court for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The victim belongs to a Scheduled Caste. According to sources, the investigating agency has charged the accused under 16 sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Information Technology Act and the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
Ms. Vinothini also produced around 90 documents, video and audio clippings and the mobile phones of the accused. The woman was allegedly blackmailed with a video clip of hers and subjected to repeated sexual assault by the accused.
