Seven college students held for gang-raping 17-year-old Coimbatore girl
Police said two of the accused had befriended the girl through Snapchat, an instant messaging app, and took the girl to their room in Kovaipudur where they raped her.
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COIMBATORE: Seven college students were arrested on Tuesday for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in Coimbatore.
Police said two of the accused had befriended the girl through Snapchat, an instant messaging app, and took the girl to their room in Kovaipudur, where they sexually assaulted her.
The girl dropped out of school when she was in class 12 and had been staying with her grandmother. When she went missing on Saturday night (February 15), the grandmother informed her father, who after a futile search lodged a missing person complaint with the police.
However, the girl returned home early the next day and revealed to her family that the college students sexually assaulted her. The police then detained Jebin, 20, Rakshith, 19, Abineshwaran, 20, Deepak, 20, Yadavaraj, Muthu Nagaraj, 19, and Nithish, 20 under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) for sexually assaulting the girl.
According to police, the accused persons hailed from different areas and were staying together in the room where they sexually assaulted the girl; they had allegedly done so in the past too.
All seven were produced before the court and remanded in judicial custody. They will be lodged in Coimbatore Central Prison.
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Police seized a two-wheeler used by the accused to take the girl to their room.
The incident comes days after three minor boys and an 18-year-old youth were arrested for sexually assaulting two minor girls and a boy in Pollachi near Coimbatore. They had sexually assaulted the victims over the past few months.
