While Coimbatore (Rural) Superintendent of Police R Pandiarajan on Monday said that no videos of rape/sexual assault were found in mobile phones of the accused in the Pollachi sexual abuse-cum-blackmail case, inquiries reveal that the crime network could be much wider with involvement of at least 15 men.
The police have so far arrested four youth and booked them only under Sections 354 (A) [sexual harassment], 354 (B) [assault or use of criminal force] of the IPC read with 66 (E) of IT Act and Section 4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act. No rape charges were booked.